Spatio-Temporal Surface Shear-Stress Variability in Live Plant Canopies and Cube Arrays

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 337-356

  Walter, Benjamin ^a,b   Gromke, Christof ^a   Leonard, Katherine C ^a,c   Manes, Costantino ^d   Lehning, Michael ^a,b  

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

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeolian processes; Drag partitioning; Particle erosion; Surface shear stress; Turbulent boundary layer; Vegetation aerodynamics

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN PROCESS; FLOW REGIMES; FRICTION VELOCITY; HORSESHOE VORTICES; IRREGULAR STRUCTURES; MEAN VELOCITIES; NATURAL BOUNDARY; PARTICLE EROSION; PLANT CANOPIES; REYNOLDS STRESS; ROUGHNESS DENSITY; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; SEDIMENT EROSION; SHEAR-STRESS MEASUREMENT; SHELTERING EFFECT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SURFACE SHEAR; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY-LAYER; WIND SPEED; WIND TUNNEL TESTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; EROSION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CANOPY; EOLIAN PROCESS; EROSION; KINEMATICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84859216052     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9690-5     Document Type: Article

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