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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817773003321

Titolo

Atmospheric turbulence, meteorological modeling and aerodynamics / / Peter R. Lang and Frank S. Lombargo, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010

ISBN

1-61728-264-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (740 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LangPeter R

LombargoFrank S

Disciplina

551.5501/5118

Soggetti

Atmospheric turbulence - Mathematical models

Reynolds analogy

Aerodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE, METEOROLOGICAL MODELING  AND AERODYNAMICS""; ""ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE, METEOROLOGICAL MODELING  AND AERODYNAMICS ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""RESEARCH AND REVIEW STUDIES""; ""CLIMATOLOGY OF THE ARCTIC PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""2. THEORETICAL STRUCTURE OF THE ARCTIC PBL ""; ""3. DATA SETS AND PROXIES ""; ""Pan-Arctic Data Sets ""; ""Maritime Arctic Regions ""; ""Central Arctic Regions ""; ""Continental Sub-Arctic Regions ""; ""Greenland Region""; ""4. ARCTIC PBL CLIMATOLOGY RECONSTRUCTION""

""Dynamic Re-Stratification Processes""""Radiation Re-Stratification Processes""; ""Temperature Inversions""; ""Clouds""; ""Wind Speed and Aero-Dynamical Surface Roughness""; ""Turbulent Surface Fluxes and the PBL Life-Time""; ""5. REGIONAL SPECIFICS OF THE ARCTIC PBL CLIMATOLOGY ""; ""Arctic and Sub-Arctic PBL over Continents (Canadian, Siberian and Alaska Regions) ""; ""Arctic PBL over Ice-Covered Arctic Ocean (Central and Siberian Arctic Regions) ""; ""Arctic PBL over Ice Sheets and Glaciers (Greenland Region) ""; ""Arctic PBL near Ice Edge (Atlantic and Baffin Bay Regions) ""

""6. RECENT CHANGES IN THE PBL CLIMATOLOGY """"Representation of Arctic PBL in Meteorological Models ""; ""Projects for Arctic PBL in XXI



Century ""; ""7. SUMMARY ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMIC THEORY OF ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE  ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. BASIC THEORY OF NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS OF ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE""; ""2.1. The Entropy Equilibrium Equation and the Linear Phenomenological Relations of Atmospheric System ""

""2.2. Turbulent Transport of the Atmospheric Heat and Vaporâ€?Fourierâ€?s Law, Fickâ€?s Law, Dufour Effect and Soret Effect of the Atmospheric Turbulent Eddy Viscosity """"2.3. The Turbulent Transport of Atmospheric Momentum and the Vortex Theorem ""; ""2.3.1. Linear Phenomenological Relation of the Atmospheric Momentum Transport ""; ""2.3.2. The Theorem of Turbulent Intensity and the Theorem of Turbulent Momentum Transport ""; ""2.4. Vortex Theorem  ""; ""3. SIMILARITY THEORY AND DETERMINING LINEAR PHENOMENOLOGICAL COEFFICIENTS ""

""3.3.3. The Form of the Similarity Function , ()zLÏ?, of the Turbulent Intensity ""