Determination of the turbulent temperature-humidity correlation from scintillometric measurements

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 525-550

  Lüdi, Andreas ^a   Beyrich, Frank ^b   Mätzler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area averaged fluxes; Bichromatic correlation; Correlation of temperature humidity fluctuations; Electromagnetic waves; Heterogeneous land surface; Microwave and optical scintillometer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HEAT FLUX; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE;

AREA-AVERAGED FLUXES; BICHROMATIC CORRELATION; HETEROGENEOUS LAND SURFACE; TEMPERATURE HUMIDITY FLUCTUATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY;

EID: 32044447895     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-005-1751-1     Document Type: Article

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