Spectral structure of mesoscale winds over the water

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 672, 2013, Pages 685-700

  Larsén, Xiaoli Guo ^a   Vincent, Claire ^a   Larsen, Søren ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cospectrum; Power spectrum; Quadrature spectrum; Taylor hypothesis

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; SLOPE STABILITY;

BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; COSPECTRUM; INTEGRAL TIME SCALE; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; QUADRATURE SPECTRA; STABILITY CONDITION; STATIONARY CONDITIONS; TAYLOR HYPOTHESIS;

OFFSHORE WIND FARMS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; TURBULENCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

DENMARK;

EID: 84897961405     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2003     Document Type: Article

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