The land below the wind: Doppler LiDAR observations from the tropical rain forest of Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Weather

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 45-50

  Collier, Chris G ^a   Davies, Fay ^a   Pearson, Guy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; RAINFOREST; WIND FIELD;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

EID: 77949625471     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wea.429     Document Type: Article

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