Dust devil-Like Vortices in an Urban area detected by a 3D scanning doppler lidar

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 534-547

  Fujiwara, Chusei ^a   Yamashita, Kazuya ^a   Nakanishi, Mikio ^b   Fujiyoshi, Yasushi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convection; Convection lines; Convergence divergence; Dust or dust storms; Lidars lidar observations; Urban meteorology; Vortices

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CONVECTION LINES; CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; URBAN METEOROLOGY; VORTICES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER EFFECT; DUST; OPTICAL RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WIND EFFECTS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; DUST DEVIL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 79954991035     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2481.1     Document Type: Article

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