Turbulence variance characteristics of temperature and humidity in the unstable atmospheric surface layer above a variable pine forest

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 515-521

  Asanuma, Jun ^a   Brutsaert, Wilfried ^b  

^a NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 0032920981     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900051     Document Type: Article

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