Divergence and vorticity from aircraft air motion measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2062-2072

  Lenschow, Donald H ^a   Savic Jovcic, Verica ^b   Stevens, Bjorn ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTICITY; WIND;

AIR VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; FLOW DISTORTION; WIND FIELD MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTICITY; WIND;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD;

EID: 38549160643     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA940.1     Document Type: Article

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