Abstract: The convective boundary-layer scaling expressions presented by Wyngaard and LeMone (1980) are compared with predictions from a turbulence closure model. We first examine a model experiment involving a clear-air, convectively ...

Abstract: An atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) model is used to address problems involving the generation, turbulent transport, and deposition of giant sized (1?25 ?m) sea-salt aerosol. The surface aerosol generation rate is taken ...

Abstract: Large, diurnally varying surface temperature gradients occur at the polar cap periphery during Martian spring and summer. A primitive equation numerical model having grid points lying in the meridional plane is developed ...

Abstract: A second-moment turbulence closure model is used to investigate the make-up of the refractive structure parameter Cn2 for acoustic, optical and microwave radiation. For these different forms of radiation, Wesely (1976) ...

Abstract: A one-dimensional higher order turbulence closure model is used to investigate moisture structure within the diurnally varying planetary boundary layer. The diurnal character of the moist boundary layer as a whole and a ...

Abstract: Here we illustrate a method which readily permits determination of the relative contributions of the individual temperature-humidity structure terms to total Cn2 within the uppermost region of the clear, convective boundary ...

Abstract: Large vertical gradients of temperature and moisture, which are not uncommon at the top of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL), yield strong gradients in microwave refractivity that can result in anomalous ...

Abstract: The Naval Research Laboratory?s Coupled Ocean?Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) is used in conjunction with satellite observations and data from the Coastal Waves 1996 experiment to investigate the dynamics ...

Abstract: The model we describe involves a unique strategy in which a high vertical resolution grid is nested within the coarse vertical resolution grid of a regional numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. Physics computations ...

Abstract: This paper examines the strong, summertime northerly low-level jet (LLJ) that frequently exists along the California coast. The persistent synoptic-scale pressure distribution (North Pacific high to the west, thermal low ...