Organised motion in a tall spruce canopy: Temporal scales, structure spacing and terrain effects

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-147

  Thomas, Christoph ^a,b   Foken, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent structures; Gravity Waves; Mixing layer Analogy; Vegetation; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAVITY WAVES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

COHERENT STRUCTURES; MIXING-LAYER ANALOGY; SPRUCE CANOPY; STRUCTURE SPACING; TEMPORAL SCALES; TERRAIN EFFECTS;

SOFTWOODS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAVITY WAVES; SOFTWOODS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CANOPY EXCHANGE; EDDY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MIXING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; POWER LAW; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PICEA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

PICEA;

EID: 33846168414     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9087-z     Document Type: Article

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