Turbulence characteristics over an Urban domain observed by Doppler lidars

16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 251-254

  Wang, Yansen ^a   Ligon, David ^a   Creegan, Edward ^a   Williamson, Chatt ^a   Klipp, Cheryl ^a   Felton, Melvin ^a   Calhoun, Ronald ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT (CBD); JOINT URBAN 2003 (JU2003) PROJECT; LOW-LEVEL JET (LLJ); OKLAHOMA CITY (OTC);

BUILDINGS; DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER RADAR; GRAVITY WAVES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JETS; OPTICAL RADAR; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; URBAN PLANNING; WAKES; WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 23744468391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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