Roughness length for heat over an urban canopy

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 291-299

  Sugawara, Hirofumi ^a   Narita, Ken Ichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONGWAVE RADIATION; PARAMETERIZATION; ROUGHNESS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; URBAN CLIMATE;

EID: 62249137841     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0007-7     Document Type: Article

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