Fundamentals of Boundary-Layer Meteorology

• Main Author: Lee, Xuhui (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences,
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences.; Meteorology.; Climatology.; Ecology .; Atmospheric Sciences.; Terrestial Ecology.

This textbook introduces a set of fundamental equations that govern the conservation of mass (dry air, water vapor, trace gas), momentum and energy in the lower atmosphere. Simplifications of each of these equations are made in the context of boundary-layer processes. Extended from these equations t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to micrometeorology
• Fundamental equations
• Governing equations for mean quantities
• Forces in balance and structures of the lower atmosphere
• Generation and maintenance of atmospheric turbulence
• Tracer transport in the canopy and in the surface layer
• Principles of eddy covariance
• Radiation balance and energy balance
• Density effects. - Budgets of trace gases in the atmospheric boundary layer.