Snodar:a new instrument to measure the height of the boundary layer on the Antarctic plateau

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bonner, Colin S ^a   Ashley, Michael C B ^a   Lawrence, Jon S ^a   Storey, John W V ^a   Luong Van, Daniel M ^a   Bradley, Stuart G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctic plateau; Antarctica; Astronomy; Atmosphere; Boundary layer; Site testing; SODAR

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERE; SITE-TESTING; SODAR;

ACOUSTICS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOMES; IN SITU PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTS; IRIDIUM; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TROPOSPHERE;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 66249093501     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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