ENSC 312 Term Review

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ENSC 312 - Term Review
Boundary Layer Meteorology Final Exam 130-430
p.m. in 5-174 Thursday, 4 December 2008
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Week 1

• Introduction atmospheric scales, layers soil,
  laminar boundary layer (LBL), roughness layer
  (RL), turbulent surface layer (TSL), planetary
  boundary layer (PBL).

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Week 2

• Energy and mass exchanges 1st law of
  thermodynamics, forms of energy, modes of energy
  exchange, radiation and radiation laws, albedo of
  surface. Conduction of heat in LBL and soil,
  temperature flux - gradient relationships,
  thermal properties of materials (conductivity,
  diffusivity, thermal admittance, heat capacity,
  specific heat). LAB 1 Internet data sources /
  Use of R

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Week 3

• Mass and momentum exchanges in RL, TSL, eddy
  diffusion, stability effects, convection, surface
  energy balance. LAB 2 Soil temperature profiles
  
• Flux Ability to Transfer Gradient of a
  Relevant Property

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Week 4

• Momentum flux and wind, mixing length theory,
  Reynolds decomposition, friction velocity,
  logarithmic wind profile. LAB 3 Introduction to
  data loggers
• u u/? ln(z/z0)

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Week 5

• Logarithmic wind profile, roughness length, eddy
  correlation, profile methods, aerodynamic
  approach, Bowen ratio method, stability
  corrections. LAB 4 Thermocouples, response time

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Week 6

• Ohm's Law analogy, water balance models for
  evapotranspiration, Penman-Monteith.
• LAB 5 Wind profile and turbulent transport

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Week 7

• Air pollution in the Boundary Layer emissions,
  stability and wind effects on dispersion,
  Gaussian plume model.
• LAB 6 Field Measurements
• Midterm exam

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Week 8

• Pollutant plume types, topographic effects,
  inadvertent climate modification winds, urban
  effects, energy balances. LAB 6 (contd) Field
  Measurements

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Fieldwork
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Week 9

• Climates of simple non-vegetated surfaces soil,
  desert, snow and ice. Climates of water. LAB 7 -
  Modelling of atmospheric dispersion

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Week 10

• Climates of non-uniform terrain advective
  effects, oasis, clothesline, thermal
  circulations, sea breezes, mountain / valley
  circulations, topographic flows. LAB 8 Analysis
  of field measurements

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Week 11

• Inadvertent climate modifications.

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Airflow around buildings

• Distinct flow zones are found around buildings.
• A undisturbed B displacement
• C cavity D wake

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Week 12

• Climates of vegetated surfaces energy,
  radiation, mass balances of leaves, crops and
  forests.

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Bailey et al. (1997)
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Week 13

• The boundary layer and climate change

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Warming air temperatures
Climatic Research Unit, University of East
Anglia, http//www.cru.uea.ac.uk/