Use of synthetic data to test flight patterns for a boundary layer field experiment

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1157-1171

  Santoso, Edi ^a   Stull, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033396380     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1999)016<1157:UOSDTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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