Strategies for circulation evaluation of aircraft wake vortices measured by lidar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1183-1195

  Holzäpfel, Frank ^a   Gerz, Thomas ^a   Köpp, Friedrich ^a   Stumpf, Eike ^a   Harris, Michael ^b   Young, Robert I ^b   Dolfi Bouteyre, Agnès ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Sensors and Electronics Division   (United Kingdom)

^c Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

CIRCULATION EVALUATION;

ATMOSPHERICS;

AIRCRAFT; CIRCULATION; VORTEX; WAKE;

AIRCRAFT; CIRCULATION; LIDAR; VORTEX; WAKE;

EID: 10744231176     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<1183:SFCEOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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