Doppler lidar observations of sensible heat flux and intercomparisons with a ground-based energy balance station and WRF model output

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-162

  Davis, Jenny Clare ^a   Collier, Christopher G ^a   Davies, Fay ^a   Pearson, Guy N ^a   Burton, Ralph ^b   Russell, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-VARIANCE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER LIDARS; EDDY DISSIPATION RATE; GERMANY; GROUND BASED; HORIZONTAL WINDS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LIDAR DATA; OBSERVATION PERIOD; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE-BASED; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL VELOCITY PROFILES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DOPPLER LIDAR; ENERGY BALANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; VELOCITY PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 68249159703     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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