Author | : April L. Hiscox,Alexandria G. McCombs |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Release Date | : 2021-05-15 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780128170922 |
Pages | : 550 pages |
Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology: The Air Near Here explains essential boundary layer concepts in a way that is accessible to a wide number of people studying and working in the environmental sciences. It begins with chapters designed to present the language of the boundary layer and the key concepts of mass, momentum exchanges, and the role of turbulence. The book then moves to focusing on specific environments, uses, and problems facing science with respect to the boundary layer. Uses authentic examples to give readers the ability to utilize real world data Covers boundary layer meteorology without requiring knowledge of advanced mathematics Provides a set of tools that can be used by the reader to better understand land-air interactions Provides specific applications for a wide spectrum of environmental systems
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Release Date | : |
ISBN 10 | : 142891661X |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : Jordi Vil...-Guerau de Arellano,Bart J. H. van Stratum,Chiel C. van Heerwaarden,Kees van den Dries |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release Date | : 2015-06-04 |
ISBN 10 | : 1107090946 |
Pages | : 276 pages |
Based on more than 20 years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vil...-Guerau de Arellano and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the atmosphere and the land for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for researchers in atmospheric physics and chemistry, hydrology, and plant physiology. The combination of the book, which provides the essential theoretical concepts, and the associated interactive Chemistry Land-surface Atmosphere Soil Slab (CLASS) software, which provides hands-on practical exercises and allows students to design their own numerical experiments, will prove invaluable for learning about many aspects of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system. This book has a modular and flexible structure, allowing instructors to accommodate it to their own learning-outcome needs.
Author | : Xuhui Lee |
Publisher | : Springer |
Release Date | : 2017-08-18 |
ISBN 10 | : 3319608533 |
Pages | : 256 pages |
This textbook introduces a set of fundamental equations that govern the conservation of mass (dry air, water vapor, trace gas), momentum and energy in the lower atmosphere. Simplifications of each of these equations are made in the context of boundary-layer processes. Extended from these equations the author then discusses a key set of issues, including (1) turbulence generation and destruction, (2) force balances in various portions of the lower atmosphere, (3) canopy flow, (4) tracer diffusion and footprint theory, (5) principles of flux measurement and interpretation, (6) models for land evaporation, (7) models for surface temperature response to land use change, and (8) boundary layer budget calculations for heat, water vapor and carbon dioxide. Problem sets are supplied at the end of each chapter to reinforce the concepts and theory presented in the main text. This volume offers the accumulation of insights gained by the author during his academic career as a researcher and teacher in the field of boundary-layer meteorology.
Author | : Roland B. Stull |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release Date | : 1988-07-31 |
ISBN 10 | : 9789027727695 |
Pages | : 670 pages |
Part of the excitement in boundary-layer meteorology is the challenge associated with turbulent flow - one of the unsolved problems in classical physics. An additional attraction of the filed is the rich diversity of topics and research methods that are collected under the umbrella-term of boundary-layer meteorology. The flavor of the challenges and the excitement associated with the study of the atmospheric boundary layer are captured in this textbook. Fundamental concepts and mathematics are presented prior to their use, physical interpretations of the terms in equations are given, sample data are shown, examples are solved, and exercises are included. The work should also be considered as a major reference and as a review of the literature, since it includes tables of parameterizatlons, procedures, filed experiments, useful constants, and graphs of various phenomena under a variety of conditions. It is assumed that the work will be used at the beginning graduate level for students with an undergraduate background in meteorology, but the author envisions, and has catered for, a heterogeneity in the background and experience of his readers.
Author | : Xuhui Lee |
Publisher | : Springer |
Release Date | : 2017-08-18 |
ISBN 10 | : 3319608533 |
Pages | : 256 pages |
This textbook introduces a set of fundamental equations that govern the conservation of mass (dry air, water vapor, trace gas), momentum and energy in the lower atmosphere. Simplifications of each of these equations are made in the context of boundary-layer processes. Extended from these equations the author then discusses a key set of issues, including (1) turbulence generation and destruction, (2) force balances in various portions of the lower atmosphere, (3) canopy flow, (4) tracer diffusion and footprint theory, (5) principles of flux measurement and interpretation, (6) models for land evaporation, (7) models for surface temperature response to land use change, and (8) boundary layer budget calculations for heat, water vapor and carbon dioxide. Problem sets are supplied at the end of each chapter to reinforce the concepts and theory presented in the main text. This volume offers the accumulation of insights gained by the author during his academic career as a researcher and teacher in the field of boundary-layer meteorology.
Author | : T.N. Krishnamurti,Lydia Stefanova,Vasubandhu Misra |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release Date | : 2013-07-14 |
ISBN 10 | : 1461474094 |
Pages | : 424 pages |
This book is designed as an introductory course in Tropical Meteorology for the graduate or advanced level undergraduate student. The material within can be covered in a one-semester course program. The text starts from the global scale-view of the Tropics, addressing the zonally symmetric and asymmetric features of the tropical circulation. It then goes on to progressively smaller spatial and time scales – from the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the Asian Monsoon, down to tropical waves, hurricanes, sea breezes, and tropical squall lines. The emphasis in most chapters is on the observational aspects of the phenomenon in question, the theories regarding its nature and maintenance, and the approaches to its numerical modeling. The concept of scale interactions is also presented as a way of gaining insight into the generation and redistribution of energy for the maintenance of oscillations of a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Author | : Roland B. Stull |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release Date | : 2012-12-06 |
ISBN 10 | : 9400930275 |
Pages | : 670 pages |
Part of the excitement in boundary-layer meteorology is the challenge associated with turbulent flow - one of the unsolved problems in classical physics. An additional attraction of the filed is the rich diversity of topics and research methods that are collected under the umbrella-term of boundary-layer meteorology. The flavor of the challenges and the excitement associated with the study of the atmospheric boundary layer are captured in this textbook. Fundamental concepts and mathematics are presented prior to their use, physical interpretations of the terms in equations are given, sample data are shown, examples are solved, and exercises are included. The work should also be considered as a major reference and as a review of the literature, since it includes tables of parameterizatlons, procedures, filed experiments, useful constants, and graphs of various phenomena under a variety of conditions. It is assumed that the work will be used at the beginning graduate level for students with an undergraduate background in meteorology, but the author envisions, and has catered for, a heterogeneity in the background and experience of his readers.
Author | : Roland Stull |
Publisher | : Sundog Publishing, LLC |
Release Date | : 2018 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780888652836 |
Pages | : 942 pages |
A quantitative introduction to atmospheric science for students and professionals who want to understand and apply basic meteorological concepts but who are not ready for calculus.
Author | : John C. Wyngaard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release Date | : 2010-01-28 |
ISBN 10 | : 1139485520 |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Based on his 40+ years of research and teaching, John Wyngaard's textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows for advanced students, and a reference work for researchers in the atmospheric sciences. Part I introduces the concepts and equations of turbulence. It includes a rigorous introduction to the principal types of numerical modeling of turbulent flows. Part II describes turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Part III covers the foundations of the statistical representation of turbulence and includes illustrative examples of stochastic problems that can be solved analytically. The book treats atmospheric and engineering turbulence in a unified way, gives clear explanation of the fundamental concepts of modeling turbulence, and has an up-to-date treatment of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Student exercises are included at the ends of chapters, and worked solutions are available online for use by course instructors.
Author | : Robert M. Haberle,R. Todd Clancy,François Forget,Michael D. Smith,Richard W. Zurek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release Date | : 2017-06-29 |
ISBN 10 | : 1107016185 |
Pages | : 644 pages |
Humanity has long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Was its climate ever conducive to life? What is the atmosphere like today and why did it change so dramatically over time? Eleven spacecraft have successfully flown to Mars since the Viking mission of the 1970s and early 1980s. These orbiters, landers and rovers have generated vast amounts of data that now span a Martian decade (roughly eighteen years). This new volume brings together the many new ideas about the atmosphere and climate system that have emerged, including the complex interplay of the volatile and dust cycles, the atmosphere-surface interactions that connect them over time, and the diversity of the planet's environment and its complex history. Including tutorials and explanations of complicated ideas, students, researchers and non-specialists alike are able to use this resource to gain a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this most Earth-like of planetary neighbours.
Author | : J. R. Garratt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release Date | : 1994-04-21 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780521467452 |
Pages | : 316 pages |
The book is a moderately advanced text dealing with the physics and dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer.
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1983 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |
Author | : Alexander Baklanov,Branko Grisogono |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release Date | : 2007-10-30 |
ISBN 10 | : 0387743219 |
Pages | : 246 pages |
This volume presents peer-reviewed papers from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Atmospheric Boundary Layers held in April 2006. The papers are divided into thematic sessions: nature and theory of turbulent boundary layers; boundary-layer flows: modeling and applications to environmental security; nature, theory and modeling of boundary-layer flows; air flows within and above urban and other complex canopies: air-sea-ice interaction.
Author | : Dennis L. Hartmann |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Release Date | : 1994-07-06 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780080571638 |
Pages | : 411 pages |
Global Physical Climatology is an introductory text devoted to the fundamental physical principles and problems of climate sensitivity and change. Addressing some of the most critical issues in climatology, this text features incisive coverage of topics that are central to understanding orbital parameter theory for past climate changes, and for anthropogenic and natural causes of near-future changes-- Key Features * Covers the physics of climate change * Examines the nature of the current climate and its previous changes * Explores the sensitivity of climate and the mechanisms by which humans are likely to produce near-future climate changes * Provides instructive end-of-chapter exercises and appendices
Author | : Yolande L. Serra |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : 1996 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 360 pages |
Author | : F.T. Nieuwstadt,H. Van Dop |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release Date | : 2012-12-06 |
ISBN 10 | : 9401091129 |
Pages | : 358 pages |
The study of turbulence in the atmosphere has seen considerable progress in the last decade. To put it briefly: boundary-layer meteorology, the branch of atmospheric science that concentrates on turbulence in the lower atmosphere, has moved from the surface layer into the boundary layer itself. The progress has been made on all fronts: theoretical, numerical and observational. On the other hand, air pollution modeling has not seen such a rapid evolution. It has not benefited as much as it should have from the increasing knowledge in the field of atmospheric turbulence. Air pollution modeling is still in many ways based on observations and theories of the surface layer only. This book aims to bring the reader up to date on recent advances in boundary-layer meteorology and to pave the path for applications in air pollution dispersion problems. The text originates from the material presented during a short course on Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Pollution Modeling held in The Hague during September 1981. This course was sponsored and organized by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, xi xii PREFACE to which both editors are affiliated. The Netherlands Government Ministry of Health and Environmental Protection and the Council of Europe also gave support.
Author | : Colin Buckle |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Release Date | : 1996 |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 312 pages |
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the meteorology and climatology of Africa.
Author | : N.A |
Publisher | : N.A |
Release Date | : |
ISBN 10 | : |
Pages | : 329 pages |