Numerical study of some neutrally and unstably stratified boundary-layer flows over a valley at small Richardson number

J. D. Carlson; M. R. Foster

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v38i1.11698

Numerical study of some neutrally and unstably stratified boundary-layer flows over a valley at small Richardson number

Tellus

Volume 38 (1986): Issue 1

By: J. D. Carlson and M. R. Foster

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|Jan 1986

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