A parameterisation of the effective roughness length over inhomogeneous, flat terrain

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-216

  Baldauf, M ^a   Fiedler, F ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective roughness length; Heterogeneous terrain; Perturbation theory; Prandtl boundary layer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

PARAMETERIZATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; FLOW FIELD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; INFLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FLOW FIELD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; INFLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRAIN;

EID: 0037318419     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021185505750     Document Type: Article

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