Atmospheric profiling with the UAS SUMO: A new perspective for the evaluation of fine-scale atmospheric models

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 15-26

  Mayer, Stephanie ^a   Sandvik, Anne ^b   Jonassen, Marius O ^a   Reuder, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

ABL; ABL parameterization schemes; Central Iceland; Fine scale numerical simulation; Hofsj kull; Unmanned aerial system; WRF

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; GRAVITY WAVE; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MESOSCALE MOTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

HOFSJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84858008075     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-010-0063-2     Document Type: Article

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