Estimates of Cn2 from numerical weather prediction model output and comparison with thermosonde data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1742-1755

  Frehlich, Rod ^a   Sharman, Robert ^a   Vandenberghe, Francois ^a   Yu, Wei ^a   Liu, Yubao ^a   Knievel, Jason ^a   Jumper, George ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE BASE; AIRCRAFT DATA; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; FILTERING EFFECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LENGTH SCALE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; SMALL SCALE TURBULENCE; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE FUNCTION; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DIFFERENCE;

ATMOSPHERICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77957725784     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2350.1     Document Type: Article

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