Horizontal scale of roughness variations for realistic landscapes

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-57

  De Ridder, Koen ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Effective roughness length; Terrain heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; LAND USE;

LANDSCAPES;

MAPS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0141890765     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025407819823     Document Type: Article

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