roughness length

noun

Etymology

So called because it is typically related to the height of terrain roughness elements.

Definitions

  1. A parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind…

    A parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind speed near the ground; in the log wind profile, it is equivalent to the height at which the wind speed theoretically becomes zero.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for roughness length. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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