The Phoenix Evening Transition Flow Experiment (TRANSFLEX)

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 443-468

  Fernando, Harindra J S ^a   Verhoef, Brett ^c   Di Sabatino, Silvana ^a,b   Leo, Laura S ^a   Park, Seoyeon ^c  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Evening transition mechanism; Thermal circulation; Transition front; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHOCK TUBES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPLEX TERRAINS; THERMAL CIRCULATION; TRANSITION FRONTS; TRANSITION MECHANISM; TURBULENT MIXING;

TRANSITION FLOW;

AIR QUALITY; BUOYANCY; COMPLEX TERRAIN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84984532207     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9795-5     Document Type: Article

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