Turbulence characteristics within sparse and dense canopies

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-320

  Pietri, Laurence ^a   Petroff, Alexandre ^a,b   Amielh, Muriel ^a   Anselmet, Fabien ^a,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary layer flow; Canopy density; Canopy flow; Mixing layer flow; Spatial heterogeneity; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GAS TURBINES; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTION; CANOPY DENSITY; CANOPY ELEMENTS; CANOPY FLOW; CANOPY HEIGHTS; DENSE CANOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; FLOW TURBULENCE; LENGTH SCALE; LITERATURE DATA; LONGITUDINAL VELOCITY; MIXING LAYER FLOW; MIXING LAYERS; MIXING LENGTH; REYNOLDS STRESS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TWO-COMPONENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY EXCHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; MIXED LAYER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SKEWNESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 67349119815     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9131-x     Document Type: Article

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