viii Contents
Chapter 4 Soil Temperatures and Heat Transfer
4.1 Surface Temperature
4.2 Subsurface Temperatures
4.3 Thermal Properties of Soils
4.4 Theory of Soil
Heat
Transfer
4.5 Applications
Problems and Exercises
Chapter 5 Air Temperature and Humidity in the PBL
5.1 Factors Influencing Air Temperature and Humidity
5.2 Basic Thermodynamic Relations and Definitions
5.3 Static Stability
5.4 Mixed Layers and Inversions
5.5 Vertical Temperature and Humidity Profiles
5.6 Diurnal Variations
5.7 Applications
Problems and Exercises
Chapter 6 Wind Distribution in the
PBL
6.1 Factors Influencing Wind Distribution
6.2 Geostrophic and Thermal Winds
6.3 The Effects of Friction
6.4 The Effects of Stability
6.5 Observed Wind Profiles
6.6 Diurnal Variations
6.7 Applications
Problems and Exercises
Chapter 7 An Introduction to Viscous Flows
7.1 Inviscid and Viscous Flows
7.2
Laminar
and Turbulent Flows
7.3 Equations of Motion
7.4 Plane-Parallel Flows
7.5 Ekman Layers
7.6 Developing Boundary Layers
7.7
Heat
Transfer in Fluids
7.8 Applications
Problems
and
Exercises
Chapter 8 Fundamentals of Turbulence
8.1 Instability of Flow and Transition to Turbulence
8.2 The Generation and Maintenance of Turbulence
8.3 General Characteristics of Turbulence
8.4 Mean and Fluctuating Variables
8.5 Variances and Turbulent Fluxes
8.6 Eddies and Scales of Motion
8.7 Applications
Problems and Exercises
37
39
40
41
46
46
49
50
54
57
58
61
63
64
67
68
71
74
75
81
84
84
87
90
91
93
95
99
103
106
106
109
113
114
115
117
119
121
121