Mini-acoustic sounding - A powerful tool for ABL applications: Recent advances and applications of acoustic mini-sodars

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-61

  Asimakopoulos, D N ^a,b   Helmis, C G ^a   Petrakis, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SOUNDING; BOUNDARY LAYER; SODAR; WIND ENERGY;

EID: 0030357099     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00119399     Document Type: Article

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