Mixing-Height Time Series from Operational Ceilometer Aerosol-Layer Heights

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 265-287

  Lotteraner, Christoph ^a   Piringer, Martin ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aerosol layer height; Ceilometer; Linear interpolation; Mixing height; Radiosounding

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME SERIES; URBAN GROWTH;

AEROSOL LAYERS; CEILOMETER; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MIXING HEIGHT; RADIOSOUNDING;

MIXING;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; INTERPOLATION; MIXING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84978154003     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: 15731472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-016-0169-2     Document Type: Article

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