Keyword

wind profiles

Description: Vertical distributions of wind speed or direction in the atmosphere, studied in meteorology, atmospheric science, and environmental flux measurements.

Primary topic: Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (46%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/wind-profiles

Flux-Profile Relationships in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

1971 · J. A. Businger, J. C. Wyngaard, et al. · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 3,289

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Wind stress on a water surface

1955 · H. Charnock · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 1,911

An Analytic Model of the Wind and Pressure Profiles in Hurricanes

1980 · Greg J. Holland · Monthly Weather Review · 1,869

The Mathematical Representation of Wind Speed and Temperature Profiles in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer

1970 · C. A. Paulson · Journal of applied meteorology · 1,774

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Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones

2003 · Mark D. Powell, Peter J. Vickery, et al. · Nature · 1,517

Coefficients for sea surface wind stress, heat flux, and wind profiles as a function of wind speed and temperature

1988 · Stuart D. Smith · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1,131

Saltation of uniform grains in air

1964 · P. R. Owen · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1,099

Review of Drag Coefficients over Oceans and Continents

1977 · J. R. Garratt · Monthly Weather Review · 996

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Profile relationships: The log‐linear range, and extension to strong stability

1970 · E. K. Webb · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 840

On the Exchange of Momentum over the Open Ocean

2013 · James B. Edson, Venkata Jampana, et al. · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 822

Climate Dynamics of the Tropics

1991 · Stefan Hastenrath · Springer eBooks · 623

Momentum absorption by vegetation

1971 · A. S. Thom · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 618

The internal boundary layer ? A review

1990 · J. R. Garratt · Boundary-Layer Meteorology · 508

The Atmospheric Dynamics Mission for Global Wind Field Measurement

2005 · Ad Stoffelen, Jean Pailleux, et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 458

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GPS Dropwindsonde Wind Profiles in Hurricanes and Their Operational Implications

2003 · James L. Franklin, Michael L. Black, et al. · Weather and Forecasting · 407

On the extension of the wind profile over homogeneous terrain beyond the surface boundary layer

2007 · Sven-Erik Gryning, Ekaterina Batchvarova, et al. · Boundary-Layer Meteorology · 406

A theoretical variation of the wind profile power-law exponent as a function of surface roughness and stability

1979 · John S. Irwin · Atmospheric Environment (1967) · 356

A new look at methane and nonmethane hydrocarbon emissions from oil and natural gas operations in the Colorado Denver‐Julesburg Basin

2014 · Gabrielle Pétron, Anna Karion, et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 329

Height variation of wind speed and wind distributions statistics

1976 · C. G. Justus, Amir Mikhail · Geophysical Research Letters · 325

Spatial and temporal distributions of U.S. winds and wind power at 80 m derived from measurements

2003 · Cristina L. Archer, Mark Z. Jacobson · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 322

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The Dynamics of Boundary Layer Jets within the Tropical Cyclone Core. Part II: Nonlinear Enhancement

2001 · Jeff Kepert, Yuqing Wang · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 318

Drag measurements in roughness arrays of varying density and distribution

1971 · J.K Marshall · Agricultural Meteorology · 298

Low-Level Jet Climatology from Enhanced Rawinsonde Observations at a Site in the Southern Great Plains

1997 · C. David Whiteman, Xindi Bian, et al. · Journal of applied meteorology · 296

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Measurement and parameterization of aerodynamic roughness length variations at Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland

2006 · Ben W. Brock, Ian C. Willis, et al. · Journal of Glaciology · 275

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Objectively Determined Resolution-Dependent Threshold Criteria for the Detection of Tropical Cyclones in Climate Models and Reanalyses

2007 · K. J. E. Walsh, M. Fiorino, et al. · Journal of Climate · 271

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Citation count: 86,410