Aerodynamic roughness of urban areas derived from wind observations

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-24

  Grimmond, C S B ^a   King, T S ^a   Roth, M ^b   Oke, T R ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Roughness length; Urban area; Zero plane displacement length

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETER; METHODOLOGY; ROUGHNESS; URBAN AREA; WIND MEASUREMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032448996     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001525622213     Document Type: Article

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