The use of lidar-detected smoke puff evolution for dispersion calculations

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-197

  Choukulkar, A ^a   Calhoun, R ^a   Fernando, H J S ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AZ 85281   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler lidar; Eddy diffusivity; Emergency response; Gaussian model; JU 2003; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE;

DOPPLER LIDARS; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GAUSSIAN MODEL; JU 2003;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ALGORITHM; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DOPPLER LIDAR; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LIDAR; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE;

EID: 79956323671     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.228     Document Type: Article

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