Atmospheric Turbulence And Air Pollution Modelling: A Course Held In The Hague, 21–25 September, 1981 (atmospheric And Oceanographic Sciences Library)

The study of turbulence in the atmosphere has seen considerable progress in the last decade. To put it briefly: boundary-layer meteorology, the branch of atmospheric science that concentrates on turbulence in the lower atmosphere, has moved from the surface layer into the boundary layer itself. The progress has been made on all fronts: theoretical, numerical and observational. On the other hand, air pollution modeling has not seen such a rapid evolution. It has not benefited as much as it should have from the increasing knowledge in the field of atmospheric turbulence. Air pollution modeling is still in many ways based on observations and theories of the surface layer only. This book aims to bring the reader up to date on recent advances in boundary-layer meteorology and to pave the path for applications in air pollution dispersion problems. The text originates from the material presented during a short course on Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Pollution Modeling held in The Hague during September 1981. This course was sponsored and organized by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, xi xii PREFACE to which both editors are affiliated. The Netherlands Government Ministry of Health and Environmental Protection and the Council of Europe also gave support. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Equations and Concepts....Pages 1-36 Similarity Relations, Scaling Laws and Spectral Dynamics....Pages 37-68 Boundary-Layer Modeling....Pages 69-106 Observed Characteristics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 107-158 Diffusion in the Convective Boundary Layer....Pages 159-229 Diffusion in the Stable Boundary Layer....Pages 231-274 Applications in Air Pollution Modeling....Pages 275-310 Report from the Panel Discussion....Pages 311-321 References....Pages 323-341 Back Matter....Pages 343-358 xv NOTES ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS xxi LIST OF ABBREVIA TIONS XXIIl CHAPTER 1: GRAMMATICAL NOTES 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Basics 1 3. Major Lexical Classes 2 3. V 3 3. N 3 3. Prepredicate Position 18 19 Notes CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL SKETCH 20 20 1. Arcs vii Vlll T ABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Sets of Grammatical Relations 22 1. A Course held in The Hague, the Netherlands, 21--25 September, 1981