Observations of coherent turbulence structures in the near-neutral atmospheric boundary layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-44

  Horiguchi, Mitsuaki ^a   Hayashi, Taiichi ^a   Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki ^b   Ito, Yoshiki ^c   Ueda, Hiromasa ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sonic Corporation   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Coherent structures; Doppler sodar; Ejections and sweeps; Momentum transfer; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; COHERENT STRUCTURE; DOPPLER SODAR; DOPPLER SODARS; EJECTIONS AND SWEEPS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS; HIGH-SPEED; MOMENTUM FLUX; QUADRANT ANALYSIS; SONIC ANEMOMETER; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE WINDS; TIME-SCALES; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; TURBULENT BOUNDARY-LAYER; TURBULENT MOTION; UPWARD MOTION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; METADATA; MOMENTUM; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPEED; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

DOPPLER SODAR; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSFORM; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND PROFILE;

JAPAN;

EID: 77953706931     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9500-5     Document Type: Article

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