Department of Physics

10ΥΚ302 Physics of the Atmospheric Boundary layer

Course webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS349

Course outline 

Course content

• Introduction. Structure and development. The role of the synoptic scale system.
• Laminar and turbulent flows. Semi-empirical theories of turbulence.
• Boundary conditions. Soil heat and momentum transfer at the surface. Development of mixing layer. Entrainment mechanism at the top.
• Turbulent kinetic energy. Stability indices.
• The homogeneous turbulent atmospheric boundary layer.
• The marine atmospheric boundary layer.
• Non-homogeneous atmospheric boundary layers. Internal boundary layer. Urban boundary layer.
• Complex terrain. Flow over a hill, katabatic-anabatic winds.