A Hierarchy of Energy- and Flux-Budget (EFB) Turbulence Closure Models for Stably-Stratified Geophysical Flows

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 341-373

  Zilitinkevich, S S ^a,b,c,d,e   Elperin, T ^f   Kleeorin, N ^f   Rogachevskii, I ^f   Esau, I ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^e OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Boundary layers; Conductivity; Critical Richardson number; Diffusivity; Eddy viscosity; Free atmosphere; Inter component kinetic energy exchange; Kinetic potential and total turbulent energies Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Stability parameters; Stable stratification; Turbulence closure; Turbulent dissipation time and length scales; Turbulent fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUDGET CONTROL; DIFFUSION; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRANDTL NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

CRITICAL RICHARDSON NUMBER; EDDY VISCOSITY; KINETIC ENERGY EXCHANGES; LENGTH SCALE; STABILITY PARAMETERS; STABLE STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENT ENERGIES; TURBULENT FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; KINETIC ENERGY; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84873569272     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9768-8     Document Type: Article

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