Variations of the Wake Height over the Bolund Escarpment Measured by a Scanning Lidar

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 147-159

  Lange, Julia ^a   Mann, Jakob ^a   Angelou, Nikolas ^a   Berg, Jacob ^a   Sjöholm, Mikael ^a   Mikkelsen, Torben ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bolund; Complex flow; Wake height; WindScanner

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; WIND;

BEAM DIRECTION; BOLUND; CHANGING STRUCTURES; COMPLEX FLOW; CONTINUOUS WAVE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; WIND DIRECTIONS; WINDSCANNER;

WAKES;

DOPPLER LIDAR; ESCARPMENT; FLOW MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAKE; WIND DIRECTION;

DENMARK; ROSKILDE FJORD;

EID: 84959239085     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-015-0107-8     Document Type: Article

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