Overview
- Combines boundary-layer meteorology with a solid treatment of dispersion
- Can also be used as a textbook with a chapter entirely dedicated to excercises
- Conceptual aspects of different observational techniques are given in order to allow the reader to understand their advantages and limitations
- Provides the physical meaning of numerical models highlighting advantages and shortcomings with respect to other choices
Part of the book series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments (EARTH)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Atmospheric Turbulence
- Convective Boundary Layer
- Large Eddy Simulations
- Stable Boundary Layer
- Urban Boundary Layer
- Atmospheric dispersion
- Canopy layer
- Reynolds averaged equations
- Internal boundary layer
- Turbulent dispersion
- Canopy flow
- Obukhov length
- Numerical weather prediction
- Monin Obukhov similarity theory
- Passive scalars
- meteorology
- fluid- and aerodynamics
About this book
It presents and discusses the observations and the theory of the turbulent boundary layer, both for homogeneous and more realistic heterogeneous surface conditions, as well as the dispersion of tracers. Lastly it addresses the main problems arising due to turbulence in weather, climate and atmospheric composition numerical models.
Written for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate-level students and atmospheric researchers, it is also of interest to anyone wanting to understand the findings and obtain an update on problems that have yet to be solved.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Turbulence and Dispersion in the Planetary Boundary Layer
Authors: Francesco Tampieri
Series Title: Physics of Earth and Space Environments
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43604-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43602-9Published: 10 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82866-4Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43604-3Published: 28 September 2016
Series ISSN: 1610-1677
Series E-ISSN: 1865-0678
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 241
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Physics, Meteorology, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Fluid- and Aerodynamics