An approach for the aggregation of aerodynamic surface parameters in calculating the turbulent fluxes over heterogeneous surfaces in atmospheric models

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-337

  Mihailovic, Dragutin T ^a,b   Rao, S Trivikrama ^a,c   Hogrefe, Christian ^c   Clark, Richard D ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^d MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation of aerodynamic parameters; Land surface parameterization; Mixing length theory; Momentum transfer coefficient; Roughness sublayer; Urban modeling; Wind profile

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; URBAN AREA; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0036889294     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020487528913     Document Type: Article

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