Coherence and scale of vertical velocity in the convective boundary layer from a Doppler lidar

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 521-536

  Lothon, Marie ^a,b,c   Lenschow, Donald H ^a   Mayor, Shane D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence; Convective boundary layer; Integral scale; Lidar; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DOPPLER RADAR; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DOPPLER RADAR; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; TURBULENCE;

EID: 34548441466     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9077-1     Document Type: Article

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