Wind direction dependence of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence parameters in the urban roughness sublayer

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2086-2097

  Klipp, Cheryl ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; KINETIC ENERGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

QUADRANT ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 38849157877     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2006JAMC1298.1     Document Type: Article

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