Strong Updraft at a Sea-Breeze Front and Associated Vertical Transport of Near-Surface Dense Aerosol Observed by Doppler Lidar and Ceilometer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-142

  Iwai, Hironori ^a,b   Murayama, Yasuhiro ^a   Ishii, Shoken ^a   Mizutani, Kohei ^a   Ohno, Yuichi ^a   Hashiguchi, Taichiro ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Electromagnetic Technology Center   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ceilometer; Doppler lidar; Remote sensing; Sea breeze front; Urban boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; CEILOMETER; DOPPLER LIDAR; DOPPLER LIDARS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; MIXING HEIGHT; NEAR-SURFACE; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; SAGAMI BAY; SEA-BREEZE FRONTS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TOKYO BAY; TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREAS; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WIND FIELD; WIND STRUCTURE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DOPPLER EFFECT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; METROPOLITAN AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SEA BREEZE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 80052302110     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9635-z     Document Type: Article

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