Wind profiles, momentum fluxes and roughness lengths at Cabauw revisited

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 701-719

  Verkaik, Job W ^a   Holtslag, A A M ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cabauw; Drag coefficient; Flux profile relationship; Foot print area; Gustiness; K Gill; Local scaling; Roughness length; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; HEAT FLUX; WIND;

GUSTINESS; MOMENTUM FLUXES; WIND SPEED;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; HEAT FLUX; WIND;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847655135     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9121-1     Document Type: Article

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