Nesting Turbulence in an Offshore Convective Boundary Layer Using Large-Eddy Simulations

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 453-478

  Muñoz Esparza, Domingo ^a   Kosović, Branko ^b   García Sánchez, Clara ^a   van Beeck, Jeroen ^a  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer turbulence; Convective boundary layer; Nested large eddy simulations; Weather Research and Forecasting model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); ANISOTROPY MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SUB-GRID SCALE MODELS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84898548705     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9911-9     Document Type: Article

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