The Høvsøre Tall Wind-Profile Experiment: A Description of Wind Profile Observations in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 69-89

  Peña, Alfredo ^a   Floors, Rogier ^a   Gryning, Sven Erik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Baroclinity; Geostrophic wind; Sonic measurements; Turbulence fluxes; Wind lidar; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINITY; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; TURBULENCE FLUXES; WIND LIDAR; WIND PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; OPTICAL RADAR; TURBULENCE; WIND;

METEOROLOGY;

BAROCLINIC MODE; BOUNDARY LAYER; JET; LIDAR; TURBULENCE; WIND FORCING; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84891868166     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9856-4     Document Type: Article

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