Comparison of upwind land use and roughness length measured in the urban boundary layer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 469-485

  Rooney, G G ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Displacement height; Roughness length; Similarity; Source area modelling; Urban micrometeorology

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY; WIND EFFECTS;

WIND MEASUREMENTS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

MICROMETEOROLOGY; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; ROUGHNESS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND MEASUREMENT;

BIRMINGHAM; ENGLAND(WEST MIDLANDS); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035450934     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019265913011     Document Type: Article

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