Coherent Doppler lidar measurements of wind field statistics

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 233-256

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Hannon, Stephen M ^b   Henderson, Sammy W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar; Remote sensing; Turbulence; Velocity statistics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENCE; WIND FIELD;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0031849965     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000676021745     Document Type: Article

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