The Lagrangian stochastic model for fetch and latent heat flux estimation above uniform and nonuniform terrain

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 427-438

  Hsieh, Cheng I ^a   Katul, Gabriel G ^a   Schieldge, John ^b   Sigmon, John T ^a   Knoerr, Kenneth K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FORESTRY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LANDFORMS; LATENT HEAT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; EDDY CORRELATION FLUX MEASUREMENTS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTANCES; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELING; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

HEAT FLUX;

COMPLEX TERRAIN; FETCH; LATENT HEAT FLUX; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

USA, CALIFORNIA, DAVIS; USA, NORTH CAROLINA, DURHAM, DUKE FOREST;

EID: 0030942975     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR03136     Document Type: Article

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