Lidar observations of turbulent vortex shedding by an isolated topographic feature

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 95-108

  Hooper, William P ^a   James, Jeffrey E ^a   Lind, Richard J ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOATS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

CALIFORNIA; LIDAR OBSERVATION; SCANNING MEASUREMENT; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; TANK EXPERIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; TURBULENT EDDY; TURBULENT VORTICES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EDDIES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; VORTEX SHEDDING;

LIDAR; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURE; TURBULENCE; VORTEX;

USA, CALIFORNIA, POINT. SUR;

EID: 0030410887     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00119013     Document Type: Article

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