Effect of surface sublayer on surface skin temperature and fluxes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 537-550

  Zeng, Xubin ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM FLUX; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 3542991431     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0537:EOSSOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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