Wind profiler observations of mountain waves and rotors during T-REX

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 826-843

  Cohn, Stephen A ^a   Grubišić, Vanda ^b   Brown, William O J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Field experiments; Mountain meteorology; Mountain waves; Waves; Wind profilers

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER RADAR; CALIFORNIA; COMMON FEATURES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIODS; KEY FEATURE; L-SHAPED; MOUNTAIN METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN WAVE; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; ROTOR STRUCTURES; SHEAR LAYER; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; TIME RESOLUTION; TURBULENCE ZONES; VORTEX SHEET; WAVE CREST; WAVE MOTIONS; WIND PROFILER; WIND PROFILERS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; RADAR; ROTORS (WINDINGS);

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; PROFILER; RADAR; TURBULENCE; WAVE HEIGHT;

CALIFORNIA; OWENS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958709919     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2611.1     Document Type: Article

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