The use of kite observations to study air-sea interaction-controlled atmospheric surface layer profiles during the red experiment
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Davidson, Kenneth L.
Guest, Peter S.
Mabey, Deborah L.
Frederickson, Paul A.
Anderson, Kenneth D.
Date
2003Metadata
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The Roughness and Evaporation Duct (RED) experiment was designed to relate the effect of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) features as well as ocean surface roughness to near-surface high frequency electromagnetic propagation. For this, ABL and ocean surface data, as well as propagation data, were collected at mid-path locations in August and September 2001 off the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego (SSC-SD) performed collaborative atmospheric surface layer (NPS) and propagation (SSC-SD) measurements to identify the state of understanding of the atmosphere influence.
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