A study of spectra, structure and correlation functions and their implications for the stationarity of surface-layer turbulence

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-189

  Dias, Nelson L ^a   Chamecki, Marcelo ^a   Kan, Akemi ^a   Okawa, Cristhiane M P ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Integral scale; Low frequency turbulence; Spectral analysis; Stationarity; Temperature humidity similarity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SURFACE INVERSION;

METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMIDITY; MICROMETEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0742305786     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026067224894     Document Type: Article

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