Investigation of a Complex Nocturnal Flow in Owens Valley, California Using Coherent Doppler Lidar

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 359-378

  Choukulkar, Aditya ^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

Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS); Lidar; Mountain meteorology; Optimal interpolation; Owens Valley; Terrain Induced Rotor Experiment (T REX); Vector retrieval

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA , USA; COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR; COUPLED OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; COUPLED OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; DOPPLER LIDARS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LIDAR RETRIEVAL; LOCAL TIME; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MODEL RESULTS; NOCTURNAL FLOW; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; OWENS VALLEY; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; TERRAIN-INDUCED ROTOR EXPERIMENT (T-REX); UP-VALLEY WINDS; WIND MIXING;

CLOUDS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW FIELDS; INTERPOLATION; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

LANDFORMS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; INTERPOLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VECTOR; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; OWENS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865420162     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9729-2     Document Type: Article

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