Determination of roughness lengths for heat and momentum over boreal forests

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 581-603

  Yang, Rongqian ^a   Friedl, Mark A ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Momentum; Roughness lengths; Sensible heat

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HEAT TRANSFER; VEGETATION;

PARAMETERIZATION;

METEOROLOGY;

BOREAL FOREST; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FORESTS; HEAT TRANSFER; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS;

EID: 0038643332     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022880530523     Document Type: Article

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