Online Courses Handbook 2003

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.