Atmospheric turbulence decay during the solar total eclipse of 11 August 1999

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 301-311

  Anfossi, Domenico ^a   Schayes, Guy ^b   Degrazia, Gervasio ^c   Goulart, Antonio ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^d URI Departamento Ciencias Exatas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Solar eclipse; Turbulence decay; Wind measurements

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; WIND TUNNELS;

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE;

METEOROLOGY;

ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENCE; WIND MEASUREMENT;

ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; SOLAR ECLIPSE; TURBULENCE; WIND MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1842535194     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000016491.28111.43     Document Type: Article

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