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On the canopy flow index of a tropical forest

✍ Scribed by R. T. Pinker; J. F. Moses

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1982
Tongue: English
Weight: 513 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0006-8314
DOI: 10.1007/bf00120012

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✦ Synopsis

The usefulness ofthe canopy flow index concept is demonstrated for a two-story evergreen tropical forest. A sample of about 2500 wind profiles was utilized. It encompasses a large range of ambient wind conditions and spans the whole monsoon cycle in Southeast Asia.

It was found that the use of two canopy flow indices (one for the upper and one for the lower canopy) would be necessary to simulate the average canopy flow. For the upper canopy, an average value of 4.04 was obtained; for the lower canopy an index of 1.77 was computed. The indices seem to be independent of the ambient wind speed (if 2 m s-l IS exceeded), yet strongly dependent on wind direction.

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