Surface layer turbulence parameters over a complex terrain

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3103-3112

  Moraes, Osvaldo L L ^a   Acevedo, Otávio C ^a   Degrazia, Gervásio A ^a   Anfossi, Domenico ^b   Da Silva, Rodrigo ^a   Anabor, Vagner ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Similarity theory; Turbulence parameters

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

POLLUTANTS; SURFACE LAYERS; TERRAIN; TURBULENCE PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

COMPLEX TERRAIN; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; AIRFLOW; ANEMOMETER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

EID: 20144361985     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.01.046     Document Type: Article

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