Relationships between the Zero-plane Displacement and the Roughness Length over Sorghum and Alfalfa Canopies

Journal of Agricultural Meteorology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-24

  Otsuki, Kyoichi ^a   Kamichika, Makio ^a   Kimura, Reiji ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leaf area index; Roughness length; Wind speed; Zero plane displacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024749683     PISSN: 00218588     EISSN: 18810136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2480/agrmet.55.15     Document Type: Article

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