Urban turbulence in space and in time

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-218

  Hicks, Bruce B ^a   Callahan, William J ^b   Pendergrass III, William R ^c   Dobosy, Ronald J ^c   Novakovskaia, Elena ^b  

^a Metcorps   (United States)

^b Earth Networks Inc   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Surface fluxes; Surface layer; Surface observations; Turbulence; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

AIR RESOURCES; AVERAGE VELOCITY; DISPERSION MODELS; NEAR-SURFACE; NEW YORK CITY; REFERENCE STATIONS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SPATIAL VARIANCE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBNETWORKS; SURFACE FLUXES; SURFACE LAYER; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIANCE; TOTAL VARIANCE; URBAN METEOROLOGY; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND VELOCITIES;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; STATISTICS; TURBULENCE;

EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE MODELING; DISPERSION; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENCE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN CLIMATE; WIND VELOCITY;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857710394     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-015.1     Document Type: Article

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