Integral Turbulence Statistics Over a Central European City Centre

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 257-276

  Fortuniak, Krzysztof ^a   Pawlak, Włodzimierz ^a   Siedlecki, Mariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Normalized standard deviations; Turbulence; Urban climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; NATURAL CONVECTION; STATISTICS; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; EDDY COVARIANCE; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY; NORMALIZED STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STABILITY PARAMETERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; URBAN CLIMATES;

URBAN GROWTH;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EDDY COVARIANCE; POWER LAW; TURBULENCE; URBAN CLIMATE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

POLAND;

EID: 84872800520     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9762-1     Document Type: Article

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