Turbulence spectra above the surface friction layer in a convective boundary layer

17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  McNaughton, K G ^a   Clement, R ^a   Moncrieff, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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