Deriving characteristic parameters of the convective boundary layer from sodar measurements of the vertical velocity variance

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-22

  Seibert, Petra ^a   Langer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MIXING HEIGHT; SODAR; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

EID: 0030367722     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00119396     Document Type: Article

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