A Comment on "How Well Can We Measure the Vertical Wind Speed? Implications for Fluxes of Energy and Mass" by Kochendorfer et al.

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 329-335

  Mauder, Matthias ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angle of attack error; Energy balance closure; Field intercomparison; sSonic anemometer; Transducer shadow effects

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERCOMPARISONS; NON-ORTHOGONAL; SCALAR FLUXES; SIDE BY SIDES; SONIC ANEMOMETER; TRANSDUCER-SHADOW EFFECTS; TURBULENT WIND;

ANEMOMETERS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; EXPERIMENTS; TRANSDUCERS;

WIND EFFECTS;

ANEMOMETER; AZIMUTH; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; GRASSLAND; TRANSDUCER; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84876992892     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9794-6     Document Type: Article

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