Abstract: Detailed boundary-layer measurements are presented to show how slope winds affect the regional climate in central Veracruz state, Mexico. Observations include the growth of an anabatic convective boundary layer in summer, ...

Abstract: This paper presents a one-dimensional model of katabatic winds in ambient flow and examines types of possible solutions. Results presented in dimensionless form indicate that 1) cooling along a slope with upslope ambient ...

Abstract: We present a theoretical analysis of the effect of line averaging by a sonic anemometer on scalar fluxes and an observational study of this phenomenon in the atmospheric surface layer. The theoretical analysis rests on an ...

Abstract: Results of a one-dimensional mixed-layer growth model are compared with thermodynamic observations made during the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE). Observed drying at low levels accompanying warming in the wake ...

Abstract: On clear nights with appreciable radiative cooling, rates of change of mean quantities observed in the first 1 or 2 h after sunset are many times larger than they are subsequently until sunrise. These variations include ...

Abstract: The northeastern United States is subject to relatively frequent passages of frontal systems during the growing season. After a frontal passage, the newly arrived air mass is gradually modified by the underlying, mostly ...

Abstract: verage heat and momentum fluxes observed by a network of surface stations during the Hudson Valley Ambient Meteorology Study (HVAMS) were found as functions of a spatially representative bulk Richardson number Ribr. ...

Abstract: he authors examine how terrain texture and topography influence nocturnal mixing rates. Local topographic curvature and site sheltering exhibit systematic influences on nocturnal heat and momentum fluxes and the near-surface ...

Abstract: A better understanding of forest subcanopy flows is needed to evaluate their role in the horizontal movement of scalars, particularly in complex terrain. This paper describes detailed measurements of the canopy structure ...

Abstract: Observations of 14 cases of radiation fog in the Hudson River valley in New York State are presented. Our emphasis is to connect the fog prediction problem to mechanisms in the nocturnal boundary layer that influence heat ...