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Babb & Verlinde 1999
Babb, D.M. and Verlinde, J. (1999). Vertical velocity statistics in continental stratocumulus as measured by a 94GHz radar. Geophysical Research Letters 26: doi: 10.1029/1999GL900185. issn: 0094-8276.

Doppler power spectra from a vertically pointing 94GHz cloud radar are used to retrieve the mean and turbulent components of the in-cloud vertically velocities for a continental stratocumulus cloud field. Several horizontal scales of motion in the mean velocity field are shown, including a wave-cloud feature seen in satellite photographs. A profile of vertical velocity variance is computed for both a high reflectivity and a low reflectivity regime. These profiles appear reasonable and agree well to similar statistics from an instrumented aircraft. ¿ 1999 American Geophysical Union

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Instruments and techniques, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Remote sensing
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Geophysical Research Letters
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