The aerodynamic roughness with a blowing sand boundary layer (BSBL): A redefinition of the Owen effect

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Dong, Zhibao ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Hongtao ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SAND; SHEAR STRESS; WIND TUNNELS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; SHEAR FLOW;

POWER CURVE-FIT METHOD; AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS LENGTH; LINEAR RELATION; POWER CURVES; SAND CLOUDS; SAND TRANSPORT RATE; SHEAR VELOCITIES; WIND PROFILES;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND TUNNEL;

AERODYNAMICS; EOLIAN PROCESS; ROUGHNESS; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0037928904     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016318     Document Type: Article

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