The flatland boundary layer experiments

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......a convective boundary layer is one of the...phenomena in boundary layer meteorology...chemistry of the boundary layer. Measurements...through the boundary layer top (the entrainment...the convective boundary layer. The entrainment...the convective ...

Convective Boundary Layer Depth Estimation from Wind Profilers:...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the convective boundary layer. The planetary boundary layer depth algorithm...width of the vertical velocity), while also...variance of vertical velocity, which is large...information on boundary layer structure is...range-corrected SNR, vertical ...

A PDF-based model for boundary layer clouds. Part II: Model results

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  December 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......for the cloudy boundary layer, described in...function (PDF) of vertical velocity, temperature...described a new boundary layer cloud singlecolumn...variability of vertical velocity, temperature...moment of the vertical velocity. Filtered moment...four ...

Multiple-Doppler Radar Observations of the Evolution of Vorticity Extrema...

Monthly Weather Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......a convective boundary layer during the 12...vorticity and vertical velocity fields. The most...the nature of boundary layer vortices could...feedbacks between vertical velocity and vorticity...feedbacks between vertical velocity and ...

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...

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 presence...mixed layer [the "convective" boundary ...

A Spectral Technique for Estimating Turbulent Stress, Scalar Flux...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......planetary boundary layer, turbulent vertical velocity (w) spectral...the ocean boundary layer beneath pack...the outer boundary layer, normalized...structure of the vertical velocity spectrum in the outer boundary layer implies ...

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 ...

Relationship between the vertical velocity skewness and kurtosis observed...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Fourth-order moments of vertical velocity in the convective boundary layer (CBL) are seldom...kurtosis. Moments of vertical velocity up to the fourth...atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) has specific...shear-- dominated boundary layers (in the...formula ...

Formulation of turbulent fluxes in the stable boundary layer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  October 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ......generalized version includes a dependence on boundary layer depth, which approaches the usual boundary layer height dependence for neutral conditions...many of the observational cases, a boundary layer did not exist in the usual sense, in...

Mesoscale fluctuations in scalars generated by boundary layer convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......from a scale of the order of the boundary layer height. Surprisingly, the authors...passive scalars in the convective boundary layer can behave completely differently...by relatively small scales (~ boundary layer depth), whereas in most other...horizontal scale of the order of the ...

The Boundary Layer Winds in Hurricanes Danielle (1998) and Isabel (2003)

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......This paper describes the boundary layer wind structure and dynamics...flow by a three-dimensional boundary layer model produced by Kepert...show that the hurricane boundary layer has a complex three-dimensional...

Analysis of mesoscale linear features observed in the Artic atmospheric...

Monthly Weather Review;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......shallow (z^sub i^ == 150 m) atmospheric boundary layer is documented. These were observed...within and above the arctic atmospheric boundary layer. These aircraft data also exhibit smaller-sca...circulations with scales of 3-8 times the boundary layer depth. Based on analysis of our ...

Comment on "Comparison of radar reflectivity and vertical velocity...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......biases_in long-term mean vertical velocity of the atmosphere (W...concerning the accuracy of air vertical velocity measurement made not only...caused by, for example, boundary layer convection (Gage et al...zero in the convective boundary layer above an idealized ...

Convective boundary layer height measurement with wind profilers and...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The depth of the atmospheric boundary layer is of interest in several different...compare several different measurements of boundary layer depth. First, the authors use the standard...humidity gradients to estimate the boundary layer depth. A method for obtaining meaningful...