Estimates of upper level turbulence based on second order structure functions derived from numerical weather prediction model output

Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 213-230

  Frehlich, Rod ^a,b   Sharman, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODELS; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS;

AIRCRAFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 23944449248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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