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Roughness length of sea, sand, and snow

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Profiles of wind speed in driving sand and snow show roughness length increasing as the square of the friction velocity, in accordance with Charnock's relation for the roughness length of the sea.

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    A. C. Chamberlain

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Chamberlain, A.C. Roughness length of sea, sand, and snow. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 25, 405–409 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02041157

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