Statistics of wind direction and its increments

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1529-1534

  Van Doom, Eric ^a   Dhruva, Brindesh ^a   Sreenivasan, Katepalli R ^a   Cassella, Victor ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE; WIND DIRECTION;

POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034040386     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870401     Document Type: Article

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