Surface Temperature and Surface-Layer Turbulence in a Convective Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-72

  Garai, Anirban ^a   Pardyjak, Eric ^b   Steeneveld, Gert Jan ^c   Kleissl, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric surface layer; Convective boundary layer; Infra red imagery; Surface temperature; Surface layer plumes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; STABILITY CONDITION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE-LAYER PLUMES; TURBULENCE INFLUENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; HEAT FLUX; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; CORRELATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; INFRARED IMAGERY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84878922937     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9803-4     Document Type: Article

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