Boundary-layer flow within and above a forest canopy of variable density

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1259-1272

  Ross, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhomogeneous canopy density; Variable surface roughness

Indexed keywords

CANOPY DENSITY; CANOPY MODEL; FLOW INDUCED; FLOW PERTURBATIONS; FOREST CANOPIES; NEAR-SURFACE; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES; TURBULENT STRESS TENSORS; VARIABLE DENSITY; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FORESTRY; MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; FOREST CANOPY; HETEROGENEITY; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WIND; WAVELENGTH;

DENSITY; FLUID FLOW; FOREST CANOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84864278796     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.989     Document Type: Article

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