Lidar study of aerosol turbulence characteristics in the troposphere: Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov turbulence

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-77

  Zilberman, Arkadi ^a   Golbraikh, Ephim ^a   Kopeika, Norman S ^a   Virtser, Alexander ^b   Kupershmidt, Igor ^b   Shtemler, Yuri ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Institute for Industrial Mathematics Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lidar; Passive scalar; Turbulence spectrum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL FLUCTUATIONS; NON-KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCE; PASSIVE SCALAR;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; LIDAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

ASIA; BEER SHEVA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 39649099097     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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