Talk:Roughness length

Opening heading[edit]

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)[reply]

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 ?[reply]

suggestion: add category "fluid dynamics"? User:Nickcampbell18 —Preceding undated comment added 18:07, 15 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:36, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Roughness Length → Roughness length –

Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. $Tony (talk)$ 13:59, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Not a proper noun, should not be capitalised. Also, has already been downcased in the article for years. Jenks24 (talk) 06:11, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Needs section on fluid applications[edit]

e.g. The logarithmic velocity profile $U={\frac {U_{*}}{\kappa }}ln\left({\frac {z}{z_{0}}}\right)$ guiltyspark (talk) 21:44, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]