Free and forced convection in the atmosphere near the ground
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- 1 April 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Vol. 81 (348) , 139-143
Abstract
There is evidence for quite a sharp transition between the regimes of fully forced and of dominantly free convection in the atmosphere near the ground. The two appear to overlap significantly only over a narrow range of Richardson numbers, which may be less than twofold.Keywords
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