A simple formula for estimation of the roughness length for heat transfer over partly vegetated surfaces

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 814-829

  Blümel, Klaus ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

EFFECTIVE ROUGHNESS LENGTH;

METEOROLOGY;

HEAT TRANSFER; MICROMETEOROLOGY; ROUGHNESS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0345201723     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0814:ASFFEO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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