Statistics of Turbulence in the Stable Boundary Layer Affected by Gravity Waves

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-91

  Sorbjan, Zbigniew ^a,b   Czerwinska, Agnieszka ^b  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Boulder Atmospheric Observatory; Gradient based similarity; Gravity waves; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT BASED; INVESTIGATE EFFECTS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SIMILARITY THEORY; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; TEMPERATURE VARIANCE; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDINGS; GRAVITY WAVES; MIXED CONVECTION; OBSERVATORIES; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

GRAVITY WAVE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84878900414     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9809-y     Document Type: Article

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