Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Turbulence and Diffusion in the Atmosphere

Lectures in Environmental Sciences

  • Textbook
  • © 1997

Overview

Authors:
  1. Alfred K. Blackadar

    1. Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
    Download chapter PDF

  2. The Nature of Turbulence

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Navier-Stokes Equations

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 17-26

  4. The Neutral Surface Boundary Layer

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 27-39

  5. The Energy Equation of Turbulence

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 41-53

  6. Diabatic Surface Boundary Layers

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 55-65

  7. Homogeneous Stationary Planetary Layers

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 67-80

  8. Unconstrained Boundary Layers

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 81-97

  9. Statistical Representation of Turbulence I

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 99-107

  10. Statistical Representation of Turbulence II

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 109-121

  11. Turbulent Diffusion from Discrete Sources

    • Alfred K. Blackadar
    Pages 123-146

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 147-185
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book grew out of an introductory course that I was invited to teach on a number of occasions to senior and graduate level students at the University of Kid. I have cherished these opportunities in part because I was never required to conduct examinations or give grades. For the students, however, my good fortune presented special problems that induced my sympathy: in addition to having to contend with a foreign language, they would eventually have to confront an examiner with his own ideas about what they should have learned. Although I always left a copy of my lecture notes with this person, they were too sketchy to be of much use. The present book is an attempt to solve some of these problems. The content is intended to be as broad as possible within the limitations of an introductory one-semester course. It aims at providing an insightful view of present understanding, emphasizing the methods and the history of their development. In particular I have tried to expose the power of intuitive reasoning - the nature of tensor invariants, the usefulness of dimensional analysis, and the relevance of scales of physical quantities in the inference of relationships. I know of no other subject that has benefited more from these important tools, which seem to be widely neglected in the teaching of more fundamental disciplines.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Alfred K. Blackadar

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation