Wind tunnel experiment on turbulent diffusion suppression by row covers

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 283-290

  Mao, Guangling ^a   Kurata, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy; Row cover; Turbulent diffusion; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030664911     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(96)02394-5     Document Type: Article

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