Nighttime Boundary Layer Dispersion
             
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A tracer plume is released above the UCONN forest. Cross sectional scans of the plume take with LIDAR can give information concerning turbulence and dispersion.
             
     
Vertical cross section of the tracer plume showing plume dispersion parameter measurements.       Wavelet analysis graph of plume dynamics measured with the UNCONN LIDAR
         
             
Publications        
 

• Hiscox, April L., Carmen J. Nappo, David R. Miller. 2006. "A Note on the use of lidar images of smoke plumes to measure dispersion parameters in the stable boundary layer", Journal of Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology, vol. 23, no. 8, 1150-1154.