Comments on wind and temperature flux-profile relationships

Surveys of existing flux-profile relationships for wind velocity and temperature have been published recently by Dyer (1974) and Yamamoto (1975). However, both these surveys do not include some widely used forms of these relationships and they present the material in the form of graphs which are not fully satisfactory. Moreover both Dyer and Yamamoto do not indicate that the existing experimental data are apparently insufficient for the reliable determination of the universal functions entering flux-profile relationships. The present paper gives a more detailed and updated review of flux-profile relationships, based on a modified definition of these relationships. Included is a discussion of the deficiencies in the experimental data.

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