Some Statistics of the Temperature Structure Parameter in the Convective Boundary Layer Observed by Sodar

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-233

  Petenko, Igor ^a,b   Mastrantonio, Giangiuseppe ^a   Viola, Angelo ^a   Argentini, Stefania ^a   Pietroni, Ilaria ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bi Gaussian model; Convective boundary layer; Probability density function; Sodar; Spectrum of the temperature structure parameter; Statistical moments; Temperature structure parameter

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; GAUSSIAN MODEL; SODAR; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE PARAMETER;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOMETRY; GEOSTATISTICS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRUM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84892863342     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9867-1     Document Type: Article

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