303984 (v.2) Remote Sensing 504

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Structure of the atmospheric boundary layer. Measuring surface layer parameters. Examples. Turbulent processes. Reynolds' stresses. Eddy viscosity. The surface layer, Ekman layer. Surface transfer processes. Atmospheric stability effects. The Monin-Obukhov length, bulk and flux Richardson numbers. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Surface layer and Ekman layer profiles. Effects of time variation of stability. Statistics of turbulence. Turbulence modelling. Atmospheric dispersion models.
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