A time series sodar simulator based on large-eddy simulation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 876-889

  Wainwright, Charlotte E ^a   Stepanian, Phillip M ^a   Chilson, Phillip B ^a   Palmer, Robert D ^a   Fedorovich, Evgeni ^b   Gibbs, Jeremy A ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements effects; Large eddy simulations; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATORS; TIME SERIES; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS/EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TIME-SERIES DATA; TRANSMIT FREQUENCY;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SODAR; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84898917331     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00161.1     Document Type: Article

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