Towards a Validation of Scintillometer Measurements: The LITFASS-2009 Experiment

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-112

  Beyrich, Frank ^a   Bange, Jens ^b   Hartogensis, Oscar K ^c   Raasch, Siegfried ^d   Braam, Miranda ^a,c   van Dinther, Daniëlle ^c   Gräf, Doreen ^a   van Kesteren, Bram ^c   van den Kroonenberg, Aline C ^b,e   Maronga, Björn ^d   Martin, Sabrina ^f   Moene, Arnold F ^c  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e Scintec AG   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous terrain; LITFASS; Scintillometer; Temperature structure parameter; Turbulence; Unmanned aircraft

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS TERRAINS; LITFASS; SCINTILLOMETER; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE PARAMETER; UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS;

AIRCRAFT; BUILDINGS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; MEASUREMENTS; OBSERVATORIES; TURBULENCE;

SCINTILLATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 84861923401     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9715-8     Document Type: Article

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