Estimation of turbulence dissipation rate and its variability from sonic anemometer and wind Doppler lidar during the XPIA field campaign

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 4291-4308

  Bodini, Nicola ^a   Lundquist, Julie K ^a,b   Newsom, Rob K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETER; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER LIDAR; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATORY; TURBULENCE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85050602290     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-4291-2018     Document Type: Article

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