Measurements of thermal updraft intensity over complex terrain using American white pelicans and a simple boundary-layer forecast model

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-199

  Shannon, Harlan D ^a   Young, George S ^a   Yates, Michael A ^b   Fuller, Mark R ^c   Seegar, William S ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective boundary layer; Cross country soaring; Mixed layer similarity; Soaring birds; Thermal intensity profile

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS;

THERMAL UPDRAFT INTENSITY;

METEOROLOGY;

BIRD; COMPLEX TERRAIN; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; FLIGHT; UPDRAFT; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 0036681808     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016095804357     Document Type: Article

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