Investigations of the law-of-the-wall over sparse roughness elements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  King, James ^a   Nickling, William G ^b   Gillies, John A ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; ESTIMATION METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND EROSION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 50849111451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000804     Document Type: Article

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