Articles | Volume 10, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2595-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2595-2017
Research article
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20 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2017

Improved observations of turbulence dissipation rates from wind profiling radars

Katherine McCaffrey, Laura Bianco, and James M. Wilczak

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In this paper, we use two wind profiling radars, operating along side a highly instrumented 300 m meteorological tower, to observe turbulence dissipation rates in the planetary boundary layer from an optimized performance setup. Analysis of post-processing techniques, including spectral averaging and moments' calculation methods, shows the optimal parameters which result in good agreement, especially after bias corrections, with sonic anemometers on the tall tower.
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