Towards reconciling the large-scale structure of turbulent boundary layers in the atmosphere and laboratory

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-306

  Hutchins, Nicholas ^a   Chauhan, Kapil ^a   Marusic, Ivan ^a   Monty, Jason ^a   Klewicki, Joseph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale coherence; Neutral surface layer; Turbulent boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; LABORATORIES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; LINEAR STOCHASTIC ESTIMATION; NEUTRAL SURFACES; REYNOLDS SHEAR STRESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CORRELATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TWO-POINT CORRELATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 84874558903     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9735-4     Document Type: Article

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