Turbulence and Diffusion in the Atmosphere

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. The Nature of Turbulence

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   Pages 1-15

3. The Navier-Stokes Equations

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   Pages 17-26

4. The Neutral Surface Boundary Layer

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   Pages 27-39

5. The Energy Equation of Turbulence

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   Pages 41-53

6. Diabatic Surface Boundary Layers

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   Pages 55-65

7. Homogeneous Stationary Planetary Layers

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   Pages 67-80

8. Unconstrained Boundary Layers

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   Pages 81-97

9. Statistical Representation of Turbulence I

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10. Statistical Representation of Turbulence II

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    Pages 109-121

11. Turbulent Diffusion from Discrete Sources

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    Pages 123-146

12. Back Matter

    Pages 147-185

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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.

• Cloud
• Meteorology
• Navier-Stokes equation
• Profil
• Wind
• atmosphere
• convection
• simulation
• spheric
• thermodynamics
• turbulence
• fluid- and aerodynamics

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

  Alfred K. Blackadar

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