Radiative and turbulent fluxes in the nocturnal boundary layer

Kyung-Ja Ha; Larry Mahrt

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v55i4.12103

Radiative and turbulent fluxes in the nocturnal boundary layer

Tellus

Volume 55 (2003): Issue 4

By: Kyung-Ja Ha and Larry Mahrt

Open Access

|Jan 2003

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