The characteristics and parameterization of aerodynamic roughness length over heterogeneous surfaces

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-190

  Lu, Li ^a,b   Liu, Shaomin ^a   Xu, Ziwei ^a   Yang, Kun ^c   Cai, Xuhui ^d   Jia, Li ^e   Wang, Jiemin ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic roughness length; Footprint; Heterogeneous surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649371209     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-0180-3     Document Type: Article

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