Summertime mixing heights at Vienna, Austria, estimated from vertical soundings and by a numerical model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-45

  Piringer, Martin ^a   Baumann, Kathrin ^a   Langer, Matthias ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boundary layer model; Mixing height; Radiosonde; Tethersonde

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MIXING; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0032449027     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001565319487     Document Type: Article

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