Dual-Doppler lidar measurements for improving dispersion models

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 825-838

  Collier, Chris G ^a   Davies, Fay ^a   Bozier, Karen E ^a   Holt, Anthony R ^b   Middleton, Doug R ^c   Pearson, Guy N ^d   Siemen, Stephan ^b   Willetts, Dave V ^d   Upton, Graham J G ^b   Young, Rob I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR;

TURBULENT DISPERSION; URBAN DISPERSION MODEL; URBAN POLLUTION DISPERSION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 20844439607     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-6-825     Document Type: Article

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