The alpine mountain-plain circulation "Alpine Pumping": Airborne Doppler lidar observations at 2μm and 10.6 μm and MM5 simulations

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 2, Issue 561, 2004, Pages 747-750

  Reitebuch, Oliver ^a   Dabas, Alain ^b   Delville, Patricia ^c   Drobinski, Philippe ^d   Gantner, Leonhard ^e   Rahm, Stephan ^a   Weissmann, Martin ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; TELESCOPES; THUNDERSTORMS; TRANSMITTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MASS FLUX; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VECTOR;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 3142577034     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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