Profiles of second- to fourth-order moments of turbulent temperature fluctuations in the convective boundary layer: First measurements with rotational Raman lidar

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5485-5500

  Behrendt, A ^a   Wulfmeyer, V ^a   Hammann, E ^a   Muppa, S K ^a   Pal, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LIDAR; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TURBULENCE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84930221844     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-5485-2015     Document Type: Article

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