Full-Scale Spectrum of Boundary-Layer Winds

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 349-371

  Larsén, Xiaoli G ^a   Larsen, Søren E ^a   Petersen, Erik L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Mesoscale velocity spectra; Microscale velocity spectra; Planetary boundary layer; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; METEOROLOGY;

LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; MESOSCALE VELOCITY; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SPECTRAL GAP; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; VELOCITY SPECTRUM;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANEMOMETER; BOUNDARY LAYER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

DENMARK;

EID: 84964253047     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-016-0129-x     Document Type: Article

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