High-resolution doppler lidar observations of transient downslope flows and rotors

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3257-3272

  Kühnlein, Christian ^a   Dörnbrack, Andreas ^b   Weissmann, Martin ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lidars Lidar observations; Small scale processes; Valley mountain flows; Vortices; Wave clouds; Wind gusts

Indexed keywords

COHERENT DOPPLER LIDAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION DOPPLER LIDARS; INTENSIVE OBSERVATIONAL PERIODS; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; SMALL-SCALE PROCESS; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA; VALLEY/MOUNTAIN FLOWS; WIND GUST;

CLOUDS; HYDRAULIC JUMP; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; DOPPLER RADAR; GUST; MOUNTAIN REGION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRANSIENT FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VALLEY; VORTICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884911612     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00260.1     Document Type: Article

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