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On the measurement of second moments of turbulent wind velocity with a single Doppler radar over non-homogeneous terrain

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The measurement of turbulent wind quantities with a single Doppler radar requires a horizontal homogeneity assumption. When the terrain is not horizontally homogeneous, then the measurement of the various moments is contaminated by the gradients of these moments. However, by scanning the radar at three different elevation angles, the contamination from these gradients can be removed from the second-moment quantities of interest.

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  1. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, USA

    A. S. Frisch

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Frisch, A.S. On the measurement of second moments of turbulent wind velocity with a single Doppler radar over non-homogeneous terrain. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 54, 29–39 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00119410

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