Wind turbulence estimates in a valley by coherent Doppler lidar

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 361-371

  Krishnamurthy, Raghavendra ^a   Calhoun, Ronald ^a   Billings, Brian ^b   Doyle, James ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

COAMPS; Dissipation rate; Doppler lidar; Owens Valley; Structure function; TKE

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR;

COAMPS; DISSIPATION RATES; DOPPLER LIDARS; OWENS VALLEYS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

TURBULENCE;

CORRECTION; DOPPLER LIDAR; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; KINETIC ENERGY; MODEL VALIDATION; TERRAIN; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 80051873995     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.263     Document Type: Article

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