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Decoupling factor, aerodynamic and canopy conductances of a hedgerow olive orchard under Mediterranean climate
The degree of coupling between canopy and atmosphere, through the decoupling factor Ω , well describes the behaviour of a crop concerning its water...
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Budgets of Second-Order Turbulence Moments over a Real Urban Canopy
This study analyses budgets of second-order turbulence moments over a real urban canopy using large-eddy simulation. The urban canopy is...
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Towards Energy-Balance Closure with a Model of Dispersive Heat Fluxes
In the last decades the energy-balance-closure problem has been thoroughly investigated from different angles, resulting in approaches to reduce but...
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A Framework for Uncertainty Quantification in One-Dimensional Plant Canopy Flow
Although the fidelity of computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) models for the study of flow in plant canopies has significantly increased over the past...
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Turbulence Characteristics Across a Range of Idealized Urban Canopy Geometries
Good representation of turbulence in urban canopy models is necessary for accurate prediction of momentum and scalar distribution in and above urban...
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Flow and Turbulence Statistics of a Two-Height Canopy Model in a Wind Tunnel
Modelling the flow and mass transport in canopies requires knowledge of how roughness heterogeneity impacts them. We present wind-tunnel experiments...
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Investigation of a Geometric Parameter Corresponding to the Turbulent Length Scale Within an Urban Canopy Layer
In this paper, we identify a new geometric parameter that governs the turbulent length scale within the urban canopy layer. This parameter is the...
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Crop water stress index and its sensitivity to meteorological parameters and canopy temperature
The adverse impacts of climate change and the disparity between water availability and demand in agriculture necessitate the development of...
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An evaluation of WRF urban canopy models over Bengaluru, India
Numerical modeling of urban climate is essential for understanding mechanisms of the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. However, models must first...
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A Note on Friction Velocity and Viscous Effect for Idealized Urban Canopy Flows
Friction velocity is one of the important scaling parameters in atmospheric boundary layer studies. However, several definitions of friction velocity...
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Nutrient enrichment driven by canopy rainfall redistribution: Mechanism, quantification, and pattern
Vegetation canopies intercept and redistribute rainfall into throughfall and stemflow, which transfer substantial amounts of elements into the soil,...
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Bridging the Urban Canopy Sublayer to Aerodynamic Parameters of the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Within the roughness sublayer (RSL) of dense urban canopies composed of uniformly distributed cuboids, the time and planar-averaged mean velocity...
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Impacts of the Urban Spatial Landscape in Bei**g on Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands
How does the urban spatial landscape (USL) pattern affect the land surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) and canopy urban heat islands (CUHIs)? Based on...
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Coherent Eddies Transporting Passive Scalars Through the Plant Canopy Revealed by Large-Eddy Simulations Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
A double-distribution-function lattice Boltzmann model for large-eddy simulations of a passive scalar field in a neutrally stratified turbulent flow...
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Mixing and spreading of inclined dense jets with submerged aquatic canopies
While the current practice in designing brine outfalls for seawater desalination plants has provided a level of protection to the coastal environment...
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Error Estimates of Double-Averaged Flow Statistics due to Sub-Sampling in an Irregular Canopy Model
Exploration of the flow inside the roughness sublayer often suffers from sub-sampling of its complex three-dimensional and non-homogeneous flow...
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Forest Characterization Using C-band SAR Data—Initial Results of EOS-04 Data
In satellite remote sensing, C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors with the frequency of about 5.4 GHz and wavelength of about 5.5 cm...
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Energy balance closure and advective fluxes at ADVEX sites
When measuring the energy balance at the earth’s surface using the Eddy covariance technique, the obtained budgets seldom produce a closed energy...
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Remote sensing and GIS-based inventory and analysis of the unprecedented 2021 forest fires in Türkiye’s history
In the summer of 2021, Türkiye experienced unprecedented forest fire events. Throughout that fire season, a total of 291 fire incidents, covering an...
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Combined effects of elevated air temperature and CO2 on growth, yield, and yield components of japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.)
In the region where heat stress has become evident, the elevation of air temperature could reduce yield of heat stress-susceptible crops, such as...
