URGENT PROFIL airborne boundary-layer profiles, West Midlands

Details

Resource

Measurements

Method

Field

Geometry

City scale

Topic

Urban boundary layer

Quantities

Velocity, Turbulence statistics, Temperature, Heat flux, Wind profile

Instrument

Airborne

Location

West Midlands, UK · more from United Kingdom

Year

2007

Parts (2)

• URGENT PROFIL: Summer 1999 campaign airborne in-situ atmospheric chemistry and meteorology measurements by the University of Manchester's CESSNA aircraft
• URGENT PROFIL: Winter 2000 campaign airborne in-situ atmospheric chemistry and meteorology measurements by the University of Manchester's CESSNA aircraft

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