Statistics of momentum flux estimation using the dual coplanar beam technique

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 3193-3196

  Thorsen, Denise ^a   Franke, Steven J ^b,c   Kudeki, Erhan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOMENTUM TRANSFER;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ANEMOMETERS; ERRORS; GEOPHYSICS; HEAT FLUX; LIGHT; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RADAR; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION;

COPLANAR BEAM TECHNIQUE; FINITE SPATIAL CORRELATION; GEOPHYSICAL NOISE; MOMENTUM FLUX ESTIMATION; OPTIMAL BEAM SEPARATION;

WIND; MOMENTUM;

GEOPHYSICAL NOISE; HORIZONTAL WINDS; IRREDUCIBLE ERRORS; MEASUREMENT NOISE; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; STEERABLE BEAMS; WIND FLUCTUATION;

EID: 0033625934     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011196     Document Type: Article

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