The effect of chessboard variability of the surface fluxes on the aggregated turbulence fields in a convective atmospheric surface layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-50

  Asanuma, Jun ^a   Brutsaert, Wilfried ^b  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Monin Obukhov similarity; Non stationary atmospheric turbulence; Similarity between scalars; Surface variability

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032709246     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001835211633     Document Type: Article

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