High-resolution weather database for the terminal area of Frankfurt Airport

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1913-1932

  Frech, Michael ^a,b   Holzäpfel, Frank ^a   Tafferner, Arnold ^a   Gerz, Thomas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND;

CROSSWIND; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION SYSTEM; RADIO ACOUSTIC SOUNDING SYSTEM; SOUND DETECTION AND RANGING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRPORT; DATA SET; DATABASE; SODAR; SURFACE WIND; THRESHOLD; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANKFURT; GERMANY;

EID: 38049186515     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1513.1     Document Type: Article

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