Review and intercomparison of operational methods for the determination of the mixing height

P Seibert, F Beyrich, SE Gryning, S Joffre… - Atmospheric …, 2000 - Elsevier
The height of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) or the mixing height (MH) is a
fundamental parameter characterising the structure of the lower troposphere. Two basic …

Turbulent mixing in stratified fluids

HJS Fernando - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 1991 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Recent theoretical, experimental, and numerical investigations of stratified-fluid turbulent
mixing are reviewed, and sample results are presented in tables, graphs, and photographs …

Lidar determination of the entrainment zone thickness at the top of the unstable marine atmospheric boundary layer

C Flamant, J Pelon, PH Flamant, P Durand - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 1997 - Springer
The thickness of the entrainment zone at the top of the marine atmosphericboundary layer
(MABL) has been documented by an airborne lidar on twoconsecutive days during a cold-air …

Generation of large‐scale gravity waves and neutral winds in the thermosphere from the dissipation of convectively generated gravity waves

SL Vadas, H Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We study the response of the thermosphere and ionosphere to the dissipation of gravity
waves (GWs) excited by a deep convective plume on 1 October 2005 at 52.5° W, 15.0° S …

Rolls, streets, waves, and more: A review of quasi-two-dimensional structures in the atmospheric boundary layer

GS Young, DAR Kristovich… - Bulletin of the …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
The atmospheric boundary layer is home to a number of horizontally elongated quasi-two-
dimensional phenomena including cloud streets, roll vortices, thermal waves, and surface …

The Martian atmospheric boundary layer

A Petrosyan, B Galperin, SE Larsen… - Reviews of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The planetary boundary layer (PBL) represents the part of the atmosphere that is strongly
influenced by the presence of the underlying surface and mediates the key interactions …

Identification of a thunderstorm as a source of short period gravity waves in the upper atmospheric nightglow emissions

MJ Taylor, MA Hapgood - Planetary and Space Science, 1988 - Elsevier
A short period gravity wave train was detected by its effect on three upper atmospheric
nightglow emissions, the OI 557.7 nm and Na 589.2 nm lines and the OH bands between …

Basic entrainment equations for the atmospheric boundary layer

H Tennekes, AGM Driedonks - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 1981 - Springer
The parameterization of penetrative convection and other cases of turbulent entrainment by
the atmospheric boundary layer is reviewed in this paper. The conservation equations for a …

The energetics of entrainment across a density interface

RB Stull - Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 1976 - journals.ametsoc.org
A theory of the fluid entrainment rate into a turbulent, mixed layer across a horizontal density
interfaceis presented. By integrating the turbulent kinetic energy equation over the depth of …

A new model to simulate the Martian mesoscale and microscale atmospheric circulation: Validation and first results

A Spiga, F Forget - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) Mesoscale Model is a new versatile
simulator of the Martian atmosphere and environment at horizontal scales ranging from …