Evaluating large-eddy simulations using volume imaging lidar data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1428-1452

  Mayor, Shane D ^a   Tripoli, Gregory J ^a   Eloranta, Edwin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; GRAVITY WAVES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; WIND;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; BACKSCATTER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIDAR; TURBULENCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043095496     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1428:ELSUVI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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