Critical Evaluation of Scalar Roughness Length Parametrizations Over a Melting Valley Glacier

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-332

  Guo, Xiaofeng ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Zhao, Long ^a,b   Yang, Wei ^a   Li, Shenghai ^a,b   Zhu, Meilin ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bowen ratio similarity; Bulk aerodynamic method; Eddy covariance method; Katabatic wind; Scalar roughness length; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

BOWEN-RATIO SIMILARITY; BULK AERODYNAMIC METHOD; EDDY-COVARIANCE METHOD; KATABATIC WINDS; SCALAR ROUGHNESS LENGTH; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER;

ABLATION; AERODYNAMICS; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ERRORS; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; MELTING; SNOW;

ICE;

ABLATION; AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; BOWEN RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMIDITY; KATABATIC FLOW; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MELTING; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VALLEY GLACIER; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79953304677     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9586-9     Document Type: Article

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