Retrieval of urban boundary layer structures from Doppler lidar data. Part II: Proper orthogonal decomposition

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-42

  Lin, Ching Long ^a   Xia, Quanxin ^a   Calhoun, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA PROCESSING; DECOMPOSITION; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND; WIND STRESS;

DOPPLER LIDAR; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; INFLECTION-POINT INSTABILITY; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITION; REDUCED-ORDER FIELDS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA PROCESSING; DECOMPOSITION; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND; WIND STRESS;

AIRPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER LIDAR; EIGENVALUE; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; URBAN CLIMATE; WIND SHEAR;

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

EID: 38849133470     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2329.1     Document Type: Article

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