Register: Surface roughness (Davenport roughness classification)
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Surface roughness (Davenport roughness classification)
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Notation | Name | Description | Status |
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chaotic | Chaotic (City centre with high and low-rise buildings) | Centres of large towns with mixture of low-rise and high-rise... | stable |
closed | Closed (Regular large obstacle COVER (suburb, forest)) | Landscape totally and quite regularly covered with similar si... | stable |
inapplicable | inapplicable | None of the codes in the table are applicable in the context ... | stable |
open | Open (Open flat terrain; grass, few isolated obstacles) | Level country with low vegetation (e.g. grass) and isolated o... | stable |
rough | Rough (High crops; scattered obstacles, 15 < x/H < 20) | Recently-developed 'young' landscape with high crops or crops... | stable |
roughlyOpen | Roughly open (Low crops; occasional large obstacles, x/H > 20) | Cultivated area with regular cover of low crops, or moderatel... | stable |
sea | Sea (open water, tidal flat, snow with fetch above 3 km | Open sea or lake (irrespective of the wave size), tidal flat,... | stable |
smooth | Smooth (Mud flats, snow; no vegetation, no obstacles) | Featureless land surface without any noticeable obstacles and... | stable |
unknown | unknown | The surface roughness is unknown. | stable |
veryRough | Very rough (Parkland, bushes; numerous obstacles, x/H ~ 10) | 'Old' cultivated landscape with many rather large obstacle gr... | stable |