Estimation of urban sensible heat flux using a dense wireless network of observations

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 635-653

  Nadeau, Daniel F ^a   Brutsaert, W ^b   Parlange, M B ^a   Bou Zeid, E ^c   Barrenetxea, G ^a,d   Couach, O ^a   Boldi, M O ^a   Selker, J S ^a   Vetterli, M ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monin Obukhov similarity; Network of weather stations; Profile technique; Sensible heat flux; Thermal roughness length; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SIMILARITY NETWORK; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WEATHER STATIONS;

URBAN PLANNING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

HEAT FLUX;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; ROUGHNESS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE LAYER; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 71149103025     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9150-7     Document Type: Article

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