Uncertainties in estimating the mixing depth - Comparing three mixing-depth models with profiler measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3023-3039

  Berman, Stephen ^a   Ku, Jia Yeong ^b   Zhang, Jian ^c   Rao, S Trivikrama ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; C(n)2; Mixing depth; Radar profiler

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OZONE; RADIO SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MIXING DEPTHS; RADAR PROFILERS; RADIO ACOUSTIC SOUNDING SYSTEMS (RASS);

AIR POLLUTION;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MIXING DEPTH; RADAR PROFILER; RASS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION; WIND;

EID: 0031238511     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00118-0     Document Type: Article

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