Heterogeneity-Induced Heat-Flux Patterns in the Convective Boundary Layer: Can they be Detected from Observations and is There a Blending Height?-A Large-Eddy Simulation Study for the LITFASS-2003 Experiment

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 309-331

  Sühring, Matthias ^a   Raasch, Siegfried ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aircraft observation; Blending height; Convective boundary layer; Large eddy simulation; LITFASS 2003

Indexed keywords

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; HETEROGENEOUS SURFACE; LITFASS-2003; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES; TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

BLENDING; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HEAT FLUX; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84880507296     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9822-1     Document Type: Article

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