Collaborative Analysis of CASES-99 Lidar Data

Abstract

This study deals with the analysis of CASES99 data. Specifically, with elastic and water vapor lidar data and supporting micrometeorological data from sonic anemometers, hygrometers, and long and short wave, upwelling and downwelling radiation fluxes. The analysis has two major parts. The first is the development of algorithms to obtain meteorologically useful information from the lidar data. This part of the study has been reasonably successful, and will generate a number of publications outlining the methods and analysis. This part also includes the discovery of a new type of inversion method that is quite successful. The second is the search for a theory to explain how gravity waves interact with the surface and result in vertical transport. This part of the study has resulted in a number of interesting observations, but has not resulted yet in a theory that will explain, mathematically, the processes that lead from one phenomenon to the resulting observations of vertical transport.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 12, 2005
Accession Number
ADA436823

Entities

People

  • William Eichinger

Organizations

  • University of Iowa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Anemometers
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Gravity
  • Gravity Waves
  • Inversion
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Line Of Sight
  • Measurement
  • Power Spectra
  • Radiation
  • Transport Ships
  • Vapors
  • Water Vapor
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Systems Analysis and Design