Impacts of Aerosol Shortwave Radiation Absorption on the Dynamics of an Idealized Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-49

  Barbaro, E ^a   Vila Guerau de Arellano J ^a   Krol, M C ^a   Holtslag, A A M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aerosol heat absorption; Boundary layer vertical structure; Large eddy simulation; Surface heat flux

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT ABSORPTION; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEATING RATE; INVERSION LAYERS; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

AEROSOLS;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTRAINMENT; HEATING; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84878939924     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9800-7     Document Type: Article

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