A wind tunnel examination of shear stress partitioning for an assortment of surface roughness distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Brown, S ^a   Nickling, W G ^a   Gillies, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSOR; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EROSION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 50849091632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000790     Document Type: Article

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