Approaches for aggregating heterogeneous surface parameters and fluxes for mesoscale and climate models

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 313-336

  Hu, Zhenglin ^a   Islam, Shafiqul ^a   Jiang, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation and disaggregation; Surface fluxes; Surface heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 0033493713     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1002067506887     Document Type: Article

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