Aspects of the correlation between sodar and mast instrument winds

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2241-2247

  Bradley, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

atmospheric; Data quality control; Instrumentation sensors; Profilers; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CUP ANEMOMETERS; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; FINITE SAMPLING; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; PROFILERS; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION;

ATMOSPHERICS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; REMOTE SENSING; VECTOR SPACES; WIND;

INSTRUMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CORRELATION; DATA QUALITY; PROFILER; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SODAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

EID: 84884948271     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00256.1     Document Type: Article

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