A study of the variation of urban mixed layer heights

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 6923-6930

  Simpson, Matthew ^a   Raman, Sethu ^a   Lundquist, Julie K ^b   Leach, Martin ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AERMET; Convective boundary layer; Joint URBAN (2003); Profiler; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; DATA RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AERMET (2-D MODEL); CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVECTIVE CONDITIONS; PROFILERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MIXED LAYER; PROFILER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; URBAN AREA;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLOUD; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34748851938     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.08.029     Document Type: Article

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