While I was participating in the IUTAM Symposium on Structure of
Turbulence and Drag Reduction in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1989, I
was approached by Prof. Dr. Themistocles Dracos to give a course
oflectures on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer during my sabbatical
leave at Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich -
Hoenggerberg in 1991. His reason for the suggestion was the growing
interest in the environment and its dynamics created by flow in the
Atmospheric Boundary Layer. I have been teaching boundary layer to
undergraduate and graduate students for more than twenty five
years, so I agreed to give a series of lectures on boundary layer
of the atmosphere. From the start I thought very seriously about
the problem and consulted all the published works in English on the
Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL). First consider the topography of
the Earth which has oceans calm and turbulent, mountain ranges of
height up to 9 km, lands of variable height with forests, food
growing vegetable and deserts. The shape of the Earth is nearly
spherical except at the north and south poles. Sun supplies the
energy to drive circulation of air around the Earth's atmosphere
which for all practical purposes occupies the region up to about 10
to 11 km. This brief scenerio of Earth's topography reveals the
complexity of flow very close to the Earth's surface that is hardly
flat except at the oceans' surface which consists of about 70% of
the total Earth's surface.
General
| Imprint: |
Springer
|
| Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
| Series: |
Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 17 |
| Release date: |
July 2003 |
| First published: |
March 1993 |
| Editors: |
R. S. Azad
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
574 |
| Edition: |
1993 ed. |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7923-2187-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Earth sciences >
Meteorology >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-7923-2187-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780792321873 |
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