Current challenges in understanding and forecasting stable boundary layers over land and ice

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Steeneveld, Gert Jan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gravity waves; Numerical weather prediction; Radiation; Stable boundary layer; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946712462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00041     Document Type: Short Survey

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