A note on the flux-variance similarity relationships for heat and water vapour in the unstable atmospheric surface layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 327-338

  Katul, Gabriel G ^a   Hsieh, Cheng I ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric surface layer; Closure models; Flux variance method; Scalar transport; Scalar variance similarity functions

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLUX; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0033009391     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001747925158     Document Type: Article

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