Influence of nocturnal low-level jets on eddy-covariance fluxes over a tall forest canopy

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-236

  Prabha, Thara V ^a   Leclerc, Monique Y ^a   Karipot, Anandakumar ^a   Hollinger, David Y ^b   Mursch Radlgruber, Erich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide flux; Countergradient fluxes; Eddy covariance; Low level jet; Shear sheltering; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

LOW-LEVEL JETS; MOMENTUM FLUX; SHEAR SHELTERING;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; FORESTRY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EDDY COVARIANCE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST CANOPY; JET; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38649094602     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9232-3     Document Type: Article

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