Frequency spectra of wind velocity and temperature fluctuations observed with the MU radar-RASS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3647-3650

  Yamamoto, Y ^a   Tsuda, T ^a   Adachi, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GRAVITY WAVES; RADAR; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND;

FREQUENCY SPECTRA; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL WIND;

WIND EFFECTS; SPECTROSCOPY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; RASS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

JAPAN, HONSHU, SHIGARAKI;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THEORETICAL MODELING; VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030357915     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03374     Document Type: Article

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