Boundary-layer structure upwind and downwind of Oklahoma City during the Joint Urban 2003 field study

5th Symposium on the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 177-182

  De Wekker, Stephan F J ^a   Berg, Larry K ^a   Allwine, K Jerry ^a   Doran, J Christopher ^a   Shaw, William J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNWIND CORE; INTENSIVE OBSERVATIONS PERIODS (IOP); TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; UPWIND LOCATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; DISPERSION (WAVES); GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MIXTURES; SITE SELECTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 22144437763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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