Atmospheric Disturbances that Generate Intermittent Turbulence in Nocturnal Boundary Layers

By Jielun Sun, Donald H. Lenschow, S. Burns, R. Banta, R. Newsom, R. Coulter, S. Frasier, Turker Ince, C. Nappo, B. Balsley and 4 more. 2004

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Large-Eddy Simulation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (2020, background): “This is the case for example in transitional boundary layers, going from unstable to stable stratification, where submeso motions can play a very important role (Sun et al. 2004; Mahrt and Thomas 2016).”
Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers (2014, background): “Solitary modes (Anderson 2003, Sun et al. 2002, 2004, Terradellas et al. 2005) are frequently observed in the stable atmospheric boundary layer, although their cause is generally unknown.”
Stable-boundary-layer regimes from the perspective of the low-level jet (2008, methodology): “For example, a night with a 7 m s-1 jet exhibited propagating gravity-wave and density-current activity (18 October 1999: Sun et al. 2002, 2004), and another night with a 9 m s-1 jet was interrupted by a traveling shear-instability (Kelvin–Helmholtz-type) wave packet (5 October 1999: Blumen et al.…”