Estimates of roughness parameters for arrays of obstacles

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-22

  Duijm, Nijs Jan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arrays of obstacles; Roughness length; Zero plane displacement height

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032734644     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001794831176     Document Type: Article

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