Active turbulence and scalar transport near the forest-atmosphere interface

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1533-1546

  Katul, Gabriel G ^a   Geron, Chris D ^b   Hsieh, Cheng I ^a   Vidakovic, Brani ^a   Guenther, Alex B ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; VEGETATION; VELOCITY; WALL FLOW;

FOREST ATMOSPHERE INTERFACE; FORESTS; MIXING LAYER; MOMENTUM; SCALAR FLUX TRANSPORTING EDDY MOTION; SCALAR TRANSPORT; SCALARS; SPECTRAL ENERGY; TURBULENT VELOCITY; WAVELET SPECTRA;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; FOREST CANOPY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033489847     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<1533:ATASTN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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