roughness length

English

Etymology

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

Noun

roughness length (plural roughness lengths)

  1. 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.
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