Wind-tunnel study of atmospheric stable boundary layers over a rough surface

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-82

  Ohya, Yuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Stable boundary layer; Turbulence structure; Wavy motion; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0035129479     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018767829067     Document Type: Article

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