The effect of unsteady and baroclinic forcing on predicted wind profiles in large eddy simulations: Two case studies of the daytime atmospheric boundary layer

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 661-674

  Pedersen, Jesper Grønnegaard ^a   Kelly, Mark ^a   Gryning, Sven Erik ^a   Brümmer, Burghard ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baroclinity; Large Eddy Simulation; Mesoscale phenomena; Wind LIDAR; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RESEARCH; WIND;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; BAROCLINITY; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; MESOSCALE; WIND LIDAR; WIND PROFILES;

MEASUREMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIDAR; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

DENMARK; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 84897041073     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0477     Document Type: Article

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