Estimating wind speed at an urban reference height

5th Symposium on the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 641-645

  Christen, Andreas ^a   Rotach, Mathias W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; HEAT FLUX; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL AREAS; URBAN PLANNING;

REYNOLD STRESS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS (RMSE); URBAN AREAS; WIND SPEED;

WIND;

EID: 22144446039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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