A032
Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Session ID#: 159112
Session Description:
Turbulent exchange of momentum, heat, and mass at the land-atmosphere-ocean interface provides essential forcing for atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, surface energy and water budget, carbon and nitrogen cycles, pollutant dispersion, wind pollination, and spread of plant diseases. The dynamic structure of turbulent boundary layers governs vertical mixing, which plays essential roles in long distance transport, cloud formation, and chemical reactions. Improving the knowledge of boundary layer processes and turbulence is indispensable for predicting and understanding weather, climate, environment, and ecological systems. This session will present contemporary themes in turbulent boundary layer studies based on theoretical, experimental, and numerical viewpoints. Topics of interest include: dry and moist ABL dynamics, cloud-ABL interactions, turbulent exchange processes over heterogeneous landscapes including urban environments and plant canopies, flow over mountainous terrain, marine ABL, dispersion and diffusion in turbulent boundary layers, evapotranspiration, the role of turbulence in biogeochemical cycles, and feedbacks in the surface-boundary layer system.
Index Terms:
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3379 Turbulence [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Scott Salesky, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners: Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States and Shane Mayor, California State University Chico, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chico, CA, United States
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