Climatology of velocity and temperature turbulence statistics determined from rawinsonde and ACARS/AMDAR data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1149-1169

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Sharman, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Climatology; Radiosonde observations; Statistics; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; DATA SOURCE; EDDY DISSIPATION RATE; GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRESSURE LEVEL; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL STATISTICS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE FUNCTION; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TURBULENCE STATISTICS;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; CLIMATOLOGY; TURBULENCE;

RADIOSONDES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; RADIOSONDE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 76349110452     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2196.1     Document Type: Article

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