Near-Surface Motion in the Nocturnal, Stable Boundary Layer Observed with Fibre-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-205

  Zeeman, Matthias J ^a,b   Selker, John S ^a   Thomas, Christoph K ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold air pool; Distributed temperature sensing; Stable boundary layer; Sub mesoscale; Surface flow; Tomography; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

COLD AIR POOLS; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; MESOSCALE; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84925541706     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-014-9972-9     Document Type: Article

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