Turbulence characteristics of the stable boundary layer over a mid-latitude glacier. Part I: a combination of katabatic and large-scale forcing

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-145

  Smeets, C J P P ^a   Duynkerke, P G ^b   Vugts, H F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; GLACIER; TURBULENCE; WIND FIELD;

BOUNDARY LAYER; GLACIER; KATABATIC FLOW; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; TURBULENCE;

AUSTRIA, PASTERZE GLACIER;

EID: 0031696489     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000860406093     Document Type: Article

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