Observations of the Early Evening Boundary-Layer Transition Using a Small Unmanned Aerial System

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-132

  Bonin, Timothy ^a   Chilson, Phillip ^a   Zielke, Brett ^a   Fedorovich, Evgeni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early evening transition; Heat flux; Surface layer; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; HEAT FLUX; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITIONS; EARLY EVENING TRANSITION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE LAYERS; THERMODYNAMIC CHANGES; UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE LAYER; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 84870814321     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9760-3     Document Type: Article

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