Vertical profiles of velocity variances and TKE using doppler-lidar scan data

17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pichugina, Yelena L ^a,b   Banta, R M ^b   Brewer, W A ^b  

^a Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASES-99; DOPPLER; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION DOPPLER LIDARS; IN-SITU; SCAN DATA; SODAR MEASUREMENTS; TEMPORAL AVERAGING; TURBULENCE PROFILE; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL SLICES; WIND COMPONENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OPTICAL RADAR; WIND POWER;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 74949089285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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