Relationship between nighttime wind speeds and thermal conditions above a sloping forest

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 805-815

  Komatsu, Hikaru ^a   Hotta, Norifumi ^b   Kuraji, Koichiro ^b   Suzuki, Masakazu ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANOPY; SHEAR FLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 58049089964     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.805     Document Type: Article

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