Comparison of observed 10-m wind speeds to those based on Monin-Obukhov similarity theory using IHOP_2002 aircraft and surface data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 964-972

  Strassberg, Diane ^a   LeMone, Margaret A ^b   Warner, Thomas T ^a   Alfieri, Joseph G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEED; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRCRAFT WINDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); SURFACE WINDS; WIND SPEEDS; WIND VANES;

WIND;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 44449104990     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2203.1     Document Type: Article

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