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Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Processes and Influence of Inhomogeneous Terrain

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Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields

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The boundary layer is defined as the lowest part of the atmosphere. In it meteorological variables, such as wind velocity, temperature and humidity, adjust from their values in the free-atmosphere to the boundary conditions at the earth’s surface. These boundary conditions are the no-slip condition for the velocity and for heat and humidity imposed surface fluxes. The theory of the atmospheric boundary layer should provide us with the vertical profiles of these meteorological variables and their fluxes. It will be clear these profiles will depend strongly on the process that determines vertical transport in the boundary layer. This process is turbulence. Therefore, the study of the atmospheric boundary layer is almost synonym with a study of atmospheric turbulence.

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Nieuwstadt, F.T.M. (1995). Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Processes and Influence of Inhomogeneous Terrain. In: Gyr, A., Rys, FS. (eds) Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8547-7_4

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