Second-moment budgets in cloud topped boundary layers: A large-eddy simulation study

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 510-536

  Heinze, Rieke ^a   Mironov, Dmitrii ^b   Raasch, Siegfried ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

atmospheric turbulence; cloud topped boundary layers; large eddy simulation; modeling; parameterizations; second moment budgets

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MODELS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

CLOUD-TOPPED BOUNDARY LAYER; DISSIPATION RATES; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; NOCTURNAL MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SECOND MOMENTS; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; SECOND-ORDER CLOSURE;

BUDGET CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; CLOUD; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CUMULUS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLUX MEASUREMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN; TRADE WIND; TURBULENCE;

EID: 85027953043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000376     Document Type: Article

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