50th Anniversary Issue of Boundary - Layer Meteorology
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50th Anniversary Issue of Boundary-Layer Meteorology John Garratt1 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
This is my final Editorial—on December 31, 2020 I retire after 25 years as Editor and CoEditor of Boundary-Layer Meteorology, a period in which we have published about 2500 articles in 300 issues of the journal. I have copy-edited most of these articles and have corrected around 2500 Editor’s proofs. I have received compliments from many authors, come to blows with a few, and even been told that I did “one of the worst editing jobs ever”! Phew—I need to get back to some research or write my childhood memoirs. Maybe play even more Bridge, though in the foreseeable future it is online only, given that the Covid-19 pandemic still rages. Evgeni Fedorovich and Richard Foreman now hold the reins. I wish them well, and hopefully I will continue with the journal in a minor role. Two or so years ago Evgeni and I decided to celebrate 50 years of the journal through a special issue. A number of scientists prominent as authors and reviewers of Boundary-Layer Meteorology were approached, and many have obliged by writing reviews on a range of topics relevant to the planetary boundary layer (PBL). Before previewing the contents, I would like to thank our past and present publishers—originally D. Reidel, then Kluwer, now Springer, for their support throughout the period, and in particular thank all members of the Editorial Board, past and present, who have devoted their time to the journal. I have in front of me Ted Munn’s Editorial in the first issue (March 1970), and Robert Ratcliffe’s review from Agricultural Meteorology in 1971. Both predicted a bright future for the journal, and I think it is fair to say that these early expectations have been realized. Ratcliffe’s review makes for interesting reading; here are a few extracts: The boundary layer has assumed greater importance recently for a variety of reasons… including a growing concern over pollution, the necessity for wider knowledge of urban meteorology, and of, for example, wind effects on tall buildings… Probably the most important single reason for [a focus] on the boundary layer is in connection with numerical modelling for weather forecasting. Whether it can succeed in welding together the biological, agricultural, and engineering sides with the meteorologists remains to be seen. This first issue makes a laudable attempt. The journal is well produced with clear print and diagrams, although the price is high.
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John Garratt [email protected] CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
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The references to urban meteorology and the wind effects on tall buildings (let us transpose this to turbines and wind farms) are so pertinent, given the huge increase in articles dealing with these topics in the last 20 years. However, I was struck by how this contrasts with a topic that has permeated the pages of Boundary-Layer Meteorology for all 50 years, and is a major theme in the reviews that follow. I refer to the Monin–Obukhov similarity theory—it is educational to retu
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