Derivation of turbulent flux profiles and roughness lengths from katabatic flow dynamics

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1601-1612

  Denby, Bruce ^b   Smeets, C J P P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; KATABATIC FLOW; MOMENTUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 0033747611     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<1601:DOTFPA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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