Mean flow and turbulence characteristics in an urban roughness sublayer

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-84

  Kastner Klein, Petra ^a,b   Rotach, Mathias W ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Local scaling; Street canyon; Urban meteorology; Wind profile; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW PATTERNS; KINETIC ENERGY; LANDFORMS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

LOGARITHMIC WIND LAW; PARAMETERIZATION; URBAN ROUGHNESS SUBLAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CANOPY; FLOW STRUCTURE; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; WIND PROFILE; WIND TUNNEL;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLOW STRUCTURE; STREET CANYON; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND PROFILE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 1342309777     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000010994.32240.b1     Document Type: Article

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