First synthesis of wind-profiler signals on the basis of large-eddy simulation data

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1437-1459

  Muschinski, A ^a   Sullivan, P P ^b   Wuertz, D B ^c   Hill, R J ^c   Cohn, S A ^b   Lenschow, D H ^b   Doviak, R J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; EDDY CURRENTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND; AIR; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADAR; TIME SERIES; VELOCITY;

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION (LES); RADAR WIND PROFILERS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLEAR-AIR REFRACTIVE INDEX; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0033225930     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900090     Document Type: Article

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