A comparison between various definitions of forest stand height and aerodynamic canopy height

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1225-1233

  Nakai, Taro ^a   Sumida, Akihiro ^b   Kodama, Yuji ^b   Hara, Toshihiko ^b   Ohta, Takeshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cumulative basal area; Forest canopy height; Sigmoid function; Size structure of trees

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BASAL AREA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST INVENTORY; MICROMETEOROLOGY; STAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 77954760691     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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