Canopy architecture and turbulence structure in a coniferous forest

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-59

  Marcolla, B ^a,b   Pitacco, A ^c   Cescatti, A ^a  

^a CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canopy architecture; Drag coefficient; Scalar transport; Turbulence statistics

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; TURBULENCE; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CONIFEROUS FORESTS;

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FOREST CANOPY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037903295     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023027709805     Document Type: Article

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