The Use of Weather Forecasts to Characterise Near-Surface Optical Turbulence

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 453-473

  Cheinet, S ^a   Beljaars, A ^b   Weiss Wrana, K ^c   Hurtaud, Y ^d  

^a FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

^d Delegation Generale pour l'Armement   (France)

Author keywords

Refractive index; Scintillation; Turbulence; Weather forecasts

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; LARGE SCALE TURBULENCE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; OPTICAL TURBULENCE; SMALL-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; STRUCTURE PARAMETER OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79951812431     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9567-z     Document Type: Article

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