The composite shape and structure of braid patterns in kelvin-helmholtz billows observed with a sodar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2704-2711

  Lyulyukin, Vasily ^a   Kouznetsov, Rostislav ^a,b   Kallistratova, Margarita ^a  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; COMPOSITE PATTERN; FINE-SCALE STRUCTURES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ BILLOWS; SODAR MEASUREMENTS; STABLE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; VELOCITY PERTURBATION;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; PERTURBATION; SODAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND SHEAR; WIND VELOCITY;

MOSCOW [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84891647192     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00255.1     Document Type: Article

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