The effect of surface heterogeneity on the temperature-humidity correlation and the relative transport efficiency

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-113

  Moene, Arnold F ^a   Schüttemeyer, Dirk ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

q correlation; Bkowen ratio; Surface heterogeneity; Surface layer similarity; Variance method

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION;

BKOWEN RATIO; SURFACE HETEROGENEITY; SURFACE LAYER SIMILARITY; VARIANCE METHOD;

MOISTURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; BOWEN RATIO; HUMIDITY; MODELING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 53649089722     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9312-z     Document Type: Article

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