Aerodynamic Roughness Length of Fresh Snow

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-34

  Gromke, Christof ^a   Manes, Costantino ^b   Walter, Benjamin ^a   Lehning, Michael ^a   Guala, Michele ^c  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic roughness length; Hot film anemometry; Rough wall turbulent boundary layer; Snow; Surface roughness; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS LENGTH; BALLISTIC DEPOSITION; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; HOT-FILM ANEMOMETRY; MEAN VALUES; NO-DRIFT CONDITIONS; ROUGHNESS GEOMETRY; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; ROUGHNESS STRUCTURES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; TWO-COMPONENT; VELOCITY STATISTICS; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT; ZERO-PRESSURE GRADIENT TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

ANEMOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; ANEMOMETER; PHOTOGRAPHY; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 80052286653     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9623-3     Document Type: Article

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