A case-study of mesoscale spectra of wind and temperature, observed and simulated

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 654, 2011, Pages 264-274

  Larsen, Xiaoli Guo ^a   Larsen, Søren ^a   Badger, Merete ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Doppler shift; f spectrum; Gravity waves; k spectrum; Taylor transformation

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

DOPPLER-SHIFTED FREQUENCIES; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; MESOSCALE SPECTRA; TAYLOR TRANSFORMATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; UNSTABLE CONDITIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION DIRECTION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAVITY WAVE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 79251508934     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.739     Document Type: Article

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