Abstract: It is pointed out that in a rotating frame of reference, the friction force on a fluid element may not be parallel and opposite to the velocity vector, as commonly depicted in textbook schematics of the force balance in ...

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Abstract: The free convection similarity theory is examined in the light of recent observations in the atmosphere, convection chambers and wind tunnels. The theory describes the fluctuations of temperature and vertical velocity ...

Abstract: The results from some of the latest experimental and theoretical studies of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) ire used to revise certain better known schemes (Clarke, 1970b; Deardorff, 1972b) of parameterizing the boundary ...

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Abstract: A critical assessment is made of the various diagnostic relations for the height of the nocturnal boundary layer, as well as of their past comparisons with experimental data. The parametric relations involving the ...

Abstract: The effects of baroclinity and the scale-height ratio on the drag laws of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) are examined theoretically and compared to those of stability. The similarity drag relations using surface ...

Abstract: The similarity which exists between the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer and a wind tunnelboundary layer developing over a cold plate is illustrated. It is shown that mean flow and turbulence characteristics ...

Abstract: By using a simple physical model of the baroclinic convective planetary boundary layer, the similarity functions of the geostrophic drag law are expressed as sums of a barotropic part, dependent only on the stability and ...