The behaviour of the roughness length for temperature over heterogeneous surfaces

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 533, 1996, Pages 1095-1125

  Malhi, Yadvinder ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Heterogeneous terrain; Roughness lengths; Sparsely vegetated surface; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEX TERRAIN; HETEROGENEITY; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030435721     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53304     Document Type: Article

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