LES of a spatially developing atmospheric boundary layer: Application of a fringeMethod for the stratocumulus to shallow cumulus cloud transition

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3418-3424

  Inoue, M ^a   Matheou, G ^a   Teixeira, J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); INFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INFLOW CONDITIONS; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHALLOW CUMULUS CLOUDS; SPURIOUS REFLECTIONS; THERMALLY STRATIFIED;

CLOUDS;

EID: 84906861432     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00400.1     Document Type: Article

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