Intensity of thunderstorm-generated turbulence revealed by large-eddy simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2221-2227

  Lane, Todd P ^a   Sharman, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

gravity waves; mesoscale convective systems; numerical simulation; thunderstorms; turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; THUNDERSTORMS;

ANISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; ASYMMETRIC PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; AVIATION HAZARDS; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT PROCESS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; GRAVITY WAVE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THUNDERSTORM; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84896590548     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059299     Document Type: Article

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