Height dependency of statistics of horizontal and vertical wind direction fluctuations over plant canopies have been studied, using observational data in the surface layer over paddy fields. Vertical wind directions just above plant canopies have significant positive average values and large standar
A comparison of turbulence statistics in the surface layer over plant canopies with those over several other surfaces
โ Scribed by T. Maitani
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 496 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-8314
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โฆ Synopsis
Turbulence statistics, including higher order moments, in the surface layer over plant canopies were compared with those observed over several different surfaces, using a nondimensional height (zd)/z(,. The values of (zd)/z,, extend over a very wide range from 10" over plant canopies to 10' over the ocean. Several properties such as intensities of turbulence and skewness factors show a remarkable height-dependency in the air layer below (zd)/z,, = 10'. which is supposed to be much influenced by the underlying surface. In that layer, some peculiar phenomena, such as a downward energy transport and positive flux of shear stress, are frequently observed.
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