Department of Physics

19408 Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS314/    

Course Content

• Introduction.
• Scaling laws for mean and turbulent quantities.
• Surface roughness and local advection.
• Surface fluxes.
• The thermally stratified atmospheric boundary layer.
• Marine atmospheric boundary layer.
• Fluxes at the top of the boundary layer.
• Atmospheric boundary layer modelling and parameterization schemes.
• Spectral characteristics of boundary layer turbulence.
• Flow over plant canopies.
• Flow inside the canopy.
• Flow over changing terrain.  Internal boundary layer.
• Flow over hills.
• ABL and climate.