Influence of gap size on wind damage variables in a forest

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1869-1881

  Panferov, Oleg ^a   Sogachev, Andrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Forest gap; Two equation model; Wind loading; Windstorm; Windthrow

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; DAMAGE; EQUATION; FLOW MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WIND; WIND FORCING;

EID: 53849083758     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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