Measurements of boundary layer profiles with in situ sensors and Doppler lidar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1328-1340

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Meillier, Yannick ^a   Jensen, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CONSTANT GRADIENTS; DOPPLER LIDARS; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; HIGH RATE; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LENGTH SCALE; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SCALE VELOCITY; SPATIAL FILTERING; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE PARAMETERS; TURBULENCE SPECTRUM; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT VELOCITY;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

IN SITU PROCESSING;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DOPPLER LIDAR; ESTIMATION METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SENSOR; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 52049089359     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA963.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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