Wind and turbulence in the urban boundary layer - Analysis from acoustic remote sensing data and fit to analytical relations

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 393-406

  Emeis, Stefan ^a   Baumann Stanzer, Kathrin ^b   Piringer, Martin ^b   Kallistratova, Margarita ^c   Kouznetsov, Rostislav ^c   Yuhkov, Vladislav ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGY; WIND;

ACOUSTIC DATA; BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN LAYER; REMOTE SENSING; SODAR; TURBULENCE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HANNOVER; LINZ; LOWER SAXONY; MOSCOW [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UPPER AUSTRIA;

EID: 35048855941     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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