Observations and numerical simulations of subrotor vortices during T-REX

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1229-1249

  Doyle, James D ^a   Grubišic, Vanda ^b   Brown, William O J ^c   De Wekker, Stephan F J ^d   Dörnbrack, Andreas ^e   Jiang, Qingfang ^f   Mayor, Shane D ^g   Weissmann, Martin ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^f UCAR   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL LIDARS; AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENT; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION; DOPPLER; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; INTENSE VORTEX; INVERSION STRENGTH; LEADING EDGE; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; RADAR WIND PROFILERS; REVERSED FLOW; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SMALL-SCALE VORTICES; STRONG WINDS; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; VORTEX SHEET; VORTEX STRETCHING; WIND PROFILER RADAR;

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; ROTORS; SECURITY OF DATA; VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING; VORTEX SHEDDING; VORTICITY; WIND PROFILE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 69849085268     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2933.1     Document Type: Article

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