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Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
The near-surface boundary layer above patchy snow cover in mountainous terrain is characterized by a highly complex interplay of various flows on...
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Rainfall Effects on Atmospheric Turbulence and Near-Surface Similarities in the Stable Boundary Layer
Near-surface similarities and atmospheric turbulence characteristics have a large impact on numerical weather prediction models. However, the...
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Analytical Model Coupling Ekman and Surface Layer Structure in Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows
We introduce an analytical model that describes the vertical structure of Ekman boundary layer flows coupled to the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory...
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The Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above the Marginal Ice Zone: Scaling, Surface Fluxes, and Secondary Circulations
The Arctic is undergoing rapid changes due to global warming, including the expansion of the marginal ice zone (MIZ), a zone of mixed ice and open...
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Fundamentals of Boundary-Layer Meteorology
This book is filled with didactic elements such as exercises, charts and case study examples. It introduces a set of fundamental equations that...
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The Polluted Boundary Layer
The goals of this chapter are to quantify the degree to which aerosol pollution alters properties of the boundary layer and to understand the...
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Large Eddy Simulation Study of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flow over an Abrupt Rough-to-Smooth Surface Roughness Transition
The atmospheric boundary layer flow downstream of an abrupt rough-to-smooth surface roughness transition is studied using large eddy simulations...
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The diurnal cycle from observations and ERA5 in precipitation, clouds, boundary layer height, buoyancy, and surface fluxes
Diurnal variations in precipitation, clouds and other related fields are of interest for many applications. Here I analyze surface and satellite...
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The Urban Boundary Layer
In this chapter, we wish to compare and contrast processes in the boundary layer over a city with those in the boundary layer over a natural or rural...
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A Novel Method to Quantify Near-Surface Boundary-Layer Dynamics at Ultra-High Spatio-Temporal Resolution
The lateral transport of heat above abrupt (sub-)metre-scale steps in land surface temperature influences the local surface energy balance. We...
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Evaluation of Surface Layer Stability Functions and Their Extension to First Order Turbulent Closures for Weakly and Strongly Stratified Stable Boundary Layer
In this study, we utilize a generalization of Monin–Obukhov similarity theory to construct first order turbulent closures for single-column models of...
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On the Existence of a Sublayer of Forced Convection with a Fixed Lower Boundary in the Atmospheric Surface Layer
AbstractA top sublayer with forced convection and a fixed bottom boundary was identified in the convective atmospheric surface layer. “Linear”...
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Simulation of Inertial Droplet Dispersion and the Spray Mediated Fluxes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above Waved Water Surface: A Lagrangian Stochastic Model Versus Direct Numerical Simulation
Lagrangian stochastic models (LSM) are widely used to model the dispersion of sea spray droplets injected from the water surface into the marine...
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Influence of surface roughness on shear behaviors of rock joints under constant normal load and stiffness boundary conditions
The present study experimentally investigated the shear behaviors of artificial rock samples containing single or double joints under constant normal...
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Comparison of surface and lateral boundary conditions controlled by pseudo-altimeter data assimilation for a regional Kuroshio model
Satellite altimeter data assimilation into a regional ocean model southwest of Japan is studied based on an approximate Kalman filter. System error...
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Sverdrup Flow and Boundary Currents
In his original paper, Sverdrup obtained a steady-state solution to the depth-integrated fluid equations without momentum advection and mixing. That...
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The Cloudy Boundary Layer
In this chapter, we investigate the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) influenced by two types of cloud. The first type, in the form of a horizontally...
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Wave Radiation by a Floating Body in Water of Finite Depth Using an Exact DtN Boundary Condition
The present paper focuses on the wave radiation by an oscillating body with six degrees of freedom by using the DtN artificial boundary condition....
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The boundary layer characteristics of coastal urban environments
The atmospheric boundary layer along the coastal-urban transect differs from that of urban or rural regions due to the distinctive interaction...
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Heat Transport by Turbulence and Submeso Structures in the Stable Boundary Layer
We examine measurements in the very stable boundary layer using tower data and a network of flux stations in the Shallow Cold Pool experiment....
