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An introduction to boundary layer meteorology. (English) Zbl 0752.76001

Atmospheric Sciences Library. Dordrecht etc.: Kluwer Academic Publishers,. XII, 666 p. (1988).
This book’s main aim — which is first and foremost designed as a textbook — is the understanding of turbulent atmospheric flow. After the introductory discussion of the mean boundary layer characteristics, the mathematical and conceptual tools needed and the application of the basic equations to turbulent flow, the author continues with a discussion of the prognostic equations for turbulent fluxes, kinetic energy, stability and scaling, turbulence closure techniques, boundary conditions and external forcings. After the discussion of some more mathematics pertaining to the treatment of time series the author treats such subjects as similarity theory, measurement and simulation techniques, the convective mixing layer, the stable boundary layer, boundary layer clouds, and geographic effects.
A forte of the book is the fact that it is organized as a reference, with tables of parametrizations, procedures, field experiments, useful constants, and graphs of various phenomena. The last several chapters are presented as a literature review of the current ideas and methods.
The book, which contains a variety of solved examples and exercises, is recommended to students at the beginning graduate level with an undergraduate background in meteorology.
Reviewer: K.Brod (Raunheim)

MSC:

76-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to fluid mechanics
76F99 Turbulence
76N20 Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics
76V05 Reaction effects in flows
86A10 Meteorology and atmospheric physics
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