Talk:Roughness Length

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It seems silly to me to tag this page as 'unclear to many readers'. The subject of this page is a technical concept, and demands a technical explanation. The page seems to me to be well written, and as simple as possible given its subject.

I entirely agree - it is a somewhat difficult concept which is only really of interest to those taking a fairly detailed interest in atmospheric physics. About the only thing I would add are some typical values for different terrain etc with the corresponding wind profiles over say 0 to 10 metres. Colin Mill (talk) 11:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

suggestion: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.47.71.253 (talk) 13:29, 13 May 2008 (UTC) The roughness length is the height in meters going towards the ground at which the wind speed theoretically becomes zero. This point is a mathematical point that only exists in theory. In reality the wind at this height no longer follows a mathematical logarithm ?