Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology
The Air Near Here
- 1st Edition - August 27, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: April L. Hiscox
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 0 9 2 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 0 9 3 - 9
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Request a sales quoteConceptual 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
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students or practitioners in environmental science, ecology, environmental management, air pollution, and environmental compliance who need an understanding of the physics of air flows without possessing a background in Calculus IV or Differential Equations
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Working in the in-between: Defining the boundary layer
- Abstract
- 1.1: What is this book?
- 1.2: Defining the boundary layer
- 1.3: The influencers
- 1.4: Some other concepts and definitions
- 1.5: Beyond the air
- 1.6: Moving forward
- 1.7: Summary and review
- References
- 2: Always in flux: The nature of turbulence
- Abstract
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: What is turbulence?
- 2.3: What is a flux?
- 2.4: Energy production
- 2.5: Turbulent kinetic energy
- 2.6: The turbulence closure problem
- 2.7: Key concepts – The takeaway
- References
- 3: Here, there, and everywhere: Spatial patterns and scales
- Abstract
- 3.1: What is scale
- 3.2: Scale invariance
- 3.3: Scale-dependence
- References
- 4: The known unknowns: Measurement techniques
- Abstract
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: Transport in the surface layer
- 4.3: Experiment design
- 4.4: Eddy covariance
- 4.5: Indirect measurements of turbulent fluxes
- 4.6: Meteorological measurements
- 4.7: Summary
- References
- 5: What’s next: Boundary layer prediction methods
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 5.1: Introduction: Why do we need models?
- 5.2: How do we model the boundary layer?
- 5.3: Boundary layer modeling paradigms
- 5.4: Mesoscale models
- 5.5: Microscale models
- 5.6: Summary and future outlook
- References
- 6: Who’s afraid of the dark: The not so stable stable boundary layer
- Abstract
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.2: The idealized stable boundary layer
- 6.3: The observed stable boundary layer
- 6.4: SBL classification
- 6.5: Nocturnal LLJ
- 6.6: Non-stationary turbulence
- 6.7: Summary
- 6.8: Back to the beginning
- References
- Further reading
- 7: We can’t move mountains: Flow in complex environments
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Windward wet and leeward dry
- 7.3: Forces and slope flows
- 7.4: Governing equations of slope flows
- 7.5: Mountain wind patterns
- 7.6: Recirculation
- 7.7: Summary
- References
- Further reading
- 8: If a tree falls: The role of vegetative environments in boundary layer fluxes
- Abstract
- 8.1: Introduction
- 8.2: Canopy aerodynamics
- 8.3: Canopy energy budget
- References
- 9: But we build buildings: Urban boundary layer
- Abstract
- 9.1: The structure of the urban boundary layer
- 9.2: Aerodynamic structure of the urban boundary layer
- 9.3: Surface energy balance
- 9.4: Urban heat island
- References
- Further reading
- 10: Coming and going: Transport and tracking
- Abstract
- 10.1: Introduction
- 10.2: History of atmospheric transport studies
- 10.3: Understanding the source
- 10.4: The role of atmospheric stability
- 10.5: Modeling transport
- 10.6: Plume depletion processes
- 10.7: Summary
- References
- 11: Work it! Turning knowledge into power
- Abstract
- 11.1: Introduction
- 11.2: Anatomy of a turbine
- 11.3: Down on the farm
- 11.4: The wind turbine atmospheric boundary layer
- References
- Further reading
- 12: The times they are a changing: How boundary layer processes cause feedbacks and rectifiers that affect climate change and earth system modeling
- Abstract
- 12.1: Introduction
- 12.2: Climate change in the Anthropocene
- 12.3: Marine clouds and climate change
- 12.4: Rectifier effects and their influence on ABL processes
- 12.5: Concluding statement
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 27, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 314
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128170922
- eBook ISBN: 9780128170939
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April L. Hiscox
April Hiscox is an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina. She has been working in boundary layer meteorology, remote sensing and air pollution for 15 years. Her research specialization is in stable boundary layers, with a particular focus on forest and agricultural applications. Her work is at the forefront of new measurement techniques, particularly in the realm of deriving quantitative information from lidar measurements. She has been teaching micrometeorology courses for 8 years at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USARead Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology on ScienceDirect