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Department of Physics

19408

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.