Stereo photogrammetry reveals substantial drag on cloud thermals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5051-5057

  Romps, David M ^a,b   Öktem, Rusen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud thermals; drag; stereo photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

DIMENSIONAL POSITION; EMPIRICAL DATA; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MOMENTUM EQUATION; STEREO CAMERAS; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; WAVE DRAGS;

PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CLOUD COVER; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EDDY COVARIANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STEREO IMAGE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948716916     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064009     Document Type: Article

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