Including atmospheric layers in vegetation and urban offline surface schemes

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1377-1397

  Masson, Valéry ^a   Seity, Yann ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BASEL URBAN BOUNDARY LAYER EXPERIMENTS; COMPLEX-COUPLING; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LOGARITHMIC LAW; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; OFFLINE; ROAD SURFACES; SINGLE LAYER; SURFACE BOUNDARY-LAYER; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE FLUX; URBAN CANOPIES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; INTERPOLATION; MODELS; MULTILAYERS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENCE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 66949167509     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC1866.1     Document Type: Article

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