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302763 (v.2) Remote Sensing Science 404
Area: Department of Applied Physics Contact Hours: 4.0 Credits: 25.0 Lecture: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly Other Requisite(s): Admission: to the Physics honours program
Selected topics from - structure of the atmospheric boundary layer. Measuring surface layer parameters.Turbulent processes. Reynolds' stresses. Eddy viscosity. The surface and Ekman layer. Surface transfer processes. Atmospheric stability effects. The Monin-Obukhov length, bulk and flux Richardson numbers. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Surface Ekman layer profiles. Effects of time variation of stability. Statistics of turbulence and modelling. Atmospheric dispersion models.
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