Diurnal and seasonal variability of TKE dissipation rate in the ABL over a tropical station using UHF wind profiler

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 419-430

  Kalapureddy, Madhu Chandra Reddy ^a   Kishore Kumar, K ^b   Sivakumar, V ^c   Ghosh, A K ^d   Jain, A R ^e   Krishna Reddy, K ^f  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b Space Physics Laboratory ^*  (India)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^e NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^f Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer (3307); Radar Doppler spectral width (1120); Turbulence energy dissipation rate (4490); UHF wind profiler (6969)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOPPLER RADAR; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY-LAYER (ABL); LOWER ATMOSPHERIC WIND PROFILER (LAWP); TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY (TKE);

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 33947376082     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2006.10.016     Document Type: Article

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