School of Science
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.