Similarity equations for wind and temperature profiles in the radix layer,...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the convective boundary layer, also known...wind speed and potential temperature are nearly uniform...ground, and potential temperature increases to...velocity, and boundary layer depth. The wind...whole convective boundary layer that is ...

Parameterization of Joint Frequency Distributions of Potential Temperature...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......experiment named Boundary Layer Experiment 1996...both height and boundary layer dynamics. These...the convective boundary layer. In addition...specific humidity and potential temperature ([theta]) to look...stratocumulus-topped boundary layer. Grossman ...

A Combined Eddy-Diffusivity Mass-Flux Approach for the Convective Boundary...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......parameterizations of convective boundary layers in climate and weather...parameterizations of the dry convective boundary layer, in spite of the absence of...represent realistically the boundary layer growth and what is often referred...proposed for the dry convective boundary ...

High-Resolution In Situ Profiling through the Stable Boundary Layer:...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......nighttime stable boundary layer (SBL), and well...conditions, the boundary layer top can be reasonably...even when the boundary layer, by any definition...so-called upside-down boundary layer. (ProQuest Information...nighttime stable boundary layer (SBL) ...

Use of the Doppler spectral width to improve the estimation of the...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......convective boundary layer (CBL), where...of virtual potential temperature and mixing...atmospheric boundary layer Z^sub i^ governs...gradients of wind, potential temperature, and moisture...models of the boundary layers (Stull...convective boundary ...

Linking boundary layer circulations and surface processes during FIFE 89....

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......between biophysical feedback processes, boundary layer structure, and circulations in the boundary layer. The objective is to understand how...convection associated with an undisturbed boundary layer situation and rainfall occurring during...

The flatland boundary layer experiments

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......article describes the 1995 and 1996 Flatland boundary layer experiments, known as Flatland95 and Flatland96...theme of characterization of the convective boundary layer, especially the boundary layer top and entrainment zone. In this article...

Wind and temperature profiles in the radix layer: The bottom fifth of the...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......atmospheric boundary layer is often a...direction, and potential temperature (SuL). A radix...mean wind or potential temperature versus height...speed (M) and potential temperature (0) profiles...convective boundary layer. Figure la...momentum. For ...

Boundary layer development over a tropical island during the maritime...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......December 1995) have been used to analyze boundary layer development and circulations over two...every day of the field campaign. The boundary layer depth, temperature, and circulation...measurements. On average, the island boundary layer depth reaches 1.5 km by early to ...

Nonlocal Treatment of the Buoyancy-Shear-Driven Boundary Layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......a convective boundary layer requires that...Introduction Within the boundary layer (BL) turbulence...of convective boundary layer (CBL) is the...transport of potential temperature (buoyancy...wind and mean potential temperature. It is known...pure ...

Evaluation of an LES-Based Wind Profiler Simulator for Observations of a...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) is characterized...used in the virtual boundary layer radar (BLR) with...atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) is primarily...mix momentum and potential temperature fields in the middle...atmosphere is the ...

A Combined Local and Nonlocal Closure Model for the Atmospheric Boundary...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the atmospheric boundary layer during convective...the convective boundary layer (CBL). Both small-sca...the convective boundary layer. Testing the ACM2...parameters (e.g., potential temperature, moisture variables...in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) ...

Vertical Velocity and Buoyancy Characteristics of Coherent Echo Plumes in...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......sheared continental convective boundary layer. Vertically pointing radar...Introduction The planetary boundary layer (PBL) links the earth surface...parameterize fluxes across the PBL. Boundary layer processes also affect the...mixed layer [the "convective" boundary ...

Mesoscale fluctuations in scalars generated by boundary layer convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......penetrating dry convective boundary layer (microscale convection...roughly 16 times the boundary layer depth. It turns out...velocities and the potential temperature exhibit "classic...of the order of the boundary layer height. Surprisingly...in the convective ...

Convectively Driven Mixing in the Bottom Boundary Layer

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......through the bottom boundary layer over a sloping continental...vertical gradient of potential temperature in the superadiabatic...which the bottom boundary layer was unstably stratified...potential density, potential temperature, and turbulent ...