Retrieval of urban boundary layer structures from Doppler lidar data. Part I: Accuracy assessment

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-20

  Xia, Quanxin ^a   Lin, Ching Long ^a   Calhoun, Ronald ^b   Newsom, Rob K ^c  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIAL FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

DOPPLER LIDAR; EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA PROCESSING; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIAL FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; MODELING; URBAN CLIMATE; VISCOSITY;

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

EID: 38849188505     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2328.1     Document Type: Article

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