The Bolund Experiment, Part I: Flow Over a Steep, Three-Dimensional Hill

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-243

  Berg, J ^a   Mann, J ^a   Bechmann, A ^a   Courtney, M S ^a   Jorgensen H E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atmospheric surface layer; Bolund; Complex terrain; Flow modelling; Turbulence; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; ATMOSPHERIC STRATIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; BOLUND; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DENMARK; FLAT TERRAINS; FLOW MODELLING; INCOMING FLOWS; LINEAR FLOWS; LOCAL ROUGHNESS; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEUTRAL FLOW; OVER WATER; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; RECIRCULATION ZONES; RECIRCULATIONS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SMALL SIZE; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; UPSTREAM CONDITIONS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC LOADS; EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; TURBINES; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEX TERRAIN; FLOW MODELING; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE FLUX; TURBULENCE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

DENMARK;

EID: 80053623558     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9636-y     Document Type: Article

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