Advanced tilt correction from flow distortion effects on turbulent CO2 fluxes in complex environments using large eddy simulation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 643, 2009, Pages 1603-1613

  Griessbaum, F ^a   Schmidt, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Urban flux

Indexed keywords

3-D WINDS; CARBON DIOXIDE FLUX; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DATA SETS; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; FLOW DISTORTION; FLOW OF AIR; GERMANY; INSTRUMENT PLATFORMS; MEAN FLOW; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEW DIRECTIONS; NUMERICAL FLOW; ROTATION METHODS; STANDARD METHOD; TILT CORRECTION; TURBULENT FLUX; URBAN FLUX; WATER VAPOUR; WIND VECTORS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CARBON DIOXIDE; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; ROTATION; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WATER VAPOR;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; EDDY COVARIANCE; FLOW MODELING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MUNSTER [NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA]; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 70349607474     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.472     Document Type: Article

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