The influence of a forest canopy on top-down and bottom-up diffusion in the planetary boundary layer

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 590 PART A, 2003, Pages 1415-1434

  Patton, E G ^a   Sullivan, P P ^b   Davis, K J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Center for Atmospheric Res   (United States)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulation; Plants; Vegetation; Vertical scalar mixing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE;

CANOPY HEIGHT;

FORESTRY;

AIRFLOW; FOREST CANOPY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; TURBULENCE;

DIFFUSION; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0038218401     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.175     Document Type: Article

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