The Critical Richardson Number and Limits of Applicability of Local Similarity Theory in the Stable Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-82

  Grachev, Andrey A ^a   Andreas, Edgar L ^b   Fairall, Christopher W ^c   Guest, Peter S ^d   Persson, P Ola G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b North West Research Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical Richardson number; Flux profile relationships; Monin Obukhov similarity theory; Nieuwstadt local scaling; Non Kolmogorov turbulence; Richardson Kolmogorov cascade; SHEBA; Stable boundary layer; z less similarity

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL RICHARDSON NUMBER; FLUX-PROFILE RELATIONSHIPS; LOCAL SCALING; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; NON-KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCES; SHEBA; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; Z-LESS SIMILARITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TURBULENCE MODELS;

MIXED CONVECTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84874564699     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9771-0     Document Type: Article

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