What is the smallest physically acceptable scale for 1D turbulence schemes?

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Honnert, Rachel ^a   Masson, Valéry ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Boundary layers; Dimensionality; Scheme; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009792584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2014.00027     Document Type: Article

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