Statistics of surface-layer turbulence over terrain with metre-scale heterogeneity

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 379-408

  Andreas, Edgar L ^a   Hill, Reginald J ^b   Gosz, James R ^c   Moore, Douglas I ^c   Otto, William D ^b   Sarma, Achanta D ^d  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE HETEROGENEITY; TERRAIN; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0031784411     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000609131683     Document Type: Article

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