Week |
Dates |
Topics |
Reading |
Due |
1 |
Sep 26 (Thu)
Oct 1 (Tue) |
Introduction: the atmospheric boundary layer |
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- |
2 |
Oct 3 (Thu)
Oct
8 (Tue) |
Energy budget near the surface: concepts and determining factors, budget of a layer, surface fluxes |
Review class notes, and Chapter 2 in Arya |
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3 |
Oct 10 (Thu)
Oct
15 (Tue) |
Energy budget near the surface: surface types, bare soil, canopies, water surfaces, applications |
QUIZ (Thu Oct 10)
|
4 |
Oct 17(Thu)
Oct 22 (Tue) |
Soil temperature and heat transfer: surface temperature, subsurface temperature, thermal properties of soils |
Review class notes, and Chapter 4 in Arya |
HW 1 (Thu Oct 17)
|
5 |
Oct 24 (Thu)
Oct
29 (Tue) |
Soil temperature and heat transfer: theory of soil heat transfer, thermal wave propagation, ground flux |
QUIZ (Thu Oct 24)
|
6 |
Oct 31 (Thu)
Nov 5 (Tue) |
Air temperature and humidity in the planetary boundary layer: thermodynamic relations for dry and saturated air, static stability, nonlocal stability |
Review class notes, and Chapter 5 in Arya
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HW 2 (Thu Oct 31)
|
7 |
Nov 7 (Thu)
Nov
12 (Tue)
|
Mixed layers: concepts, properties, terrain effects |
QUIZ (Thu Nov 7) |
8 |
Nov 14 (Thu)
Nov 19 (Tue)
|
Wind distribution in the planetary boundary layer: geostrophic balance, frictional effects, stability effects |
Review class notes, and Chapter 6 in Arya |
HW 3 (Thu Nov 14)
|
9 |
Nov 21 (Thu)
Nov 26 (Tue)
|
Viscous flows: concept of viscosity, laminar and turbulent flowsequations of motion, laminar plane-parallel flows, laminar Ekman layers, developing laminar boundary layers |
Review class notes, and Chapters 7 and 8 in Arya |
QUIZ (Thu Nov 21)
|
10 |
Dec 3 (Tue)
Dec
5 (Thu) |
Turbulence: instability and transition to turbulence, general characteristics, turbulence kinetic energy, covariances/fluxes, models of turbulence |
HW 4 (Thu Dec 5)
|
11 |
Dec 9-13 |
FINAL EXAM, Monday, December 09, 2013, 1030-1220, ATG 310C |