Aircraft evaluation of ground-based Raman lidar water vapor turbulence profiles in convective mixed layers

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1078-1088

  Turner, D ^a   Ferrare, R ^b   Wulfmeyer, V ^c   Scarino, A J ^d  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Lidars Lidar observations; Mass fluxes transport; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MIXING; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; DIFFERENTIAL-ABSORPTION LIDAR SYSTEMS; DIODE LASER HYGROMETER; LIDARS/LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; MASS FLUXES/TRANSPORT; WATER VAPOR MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84901409768     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00075.1     Document Type: Article

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