STUDIES OF EFFECTS OF BOUNDARY MODIFICATION IN PROBLEMS OF SMALL AREA METEOROLOGY

Abstract

Contents: Evapotranspiration climatonomy; Estimates of vorticity, divergence, and vertical velocity in a surface layer; Thermal response of a plant canopy to drifting cloud shadows; Thermal response of a concrete slab to controlled daytime and nighttime cycles of radiation; Topographic influence on tornado tracks and frequencies in Wisconsin and Arkansas; The theory of variangular wind spirals; The determination of the surface roughness from wind speed and air temperature profiles in the surface layer; Thermo-tidal winds in an equivalent barotropic boundary layer; Note on aerodynamic roughness-parameter estimation on the basis of roughness-element description; The surface heat budget of the Pampa de La Joya, Peru.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0697186

Entities

People

  • Charles R. Stearns
  • Heinz H. Lettau

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Geography
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Latent Heat
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • North America
  • Solar Energy
  • Solar Radiation
  • Time Intervals

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.