Surface-Based Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
The book presents a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) research. It focuses on experimental ABL research, while most of the books on ABL discuss it from a theoretical or fluid dynamics point of v
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ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES LIBRARY Volume 40
Editors Lawrence A. Mysak, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Kevin Hamilton, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A. Editorial Advisory Board A. Berger J.R. Garratt J. Hansen M. Hantel H. Kelder T.N. Krishnamurti P. Lemke A. Robock S.H. Schneider† G.E. Swaters J.C. Wyngaard
Université Catholique, Louvain, Belgium CSIRO, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Universität Wien, Austria KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), De Bilt, The Netherlands The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A. Stanford University, CA, U.S.A. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, U.S.A.
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Stefan Emeis
Surface-Based Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
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Dr. Stefan Emeis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU) Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany [email protected]
ISSN 1383-8601 ISBN 978-90-481-9339-4 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9340-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9340-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010933507 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustration: Wave@2009 JupiterImages Corporation Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
There exist several good books on the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) from a theoretical or fluid dynamics point of view starting with Stull’s book from 1988. A very recent example (although in the German language) is Kraus’ book Grundlagen der Grenzschicht-Meteorologie, which was just published by Springer in 2008. Books which concentrate on experimental ABL research are less frequent. Most experimental ABL research has been made so far by surface-based in situ experimentation (tower measurements up to a few hundred metres, surface energy balance measurements, short aircraft experiments, short experiments with tethered balloons, constant-level balloons, evaluation of radiosonde data). A good book on experimental surface-based in situ ABL research is the book Micrometeorology by Foken (2008), which concentrates on surface flux measurements. Although the surface fluxes are one of the main driving factors for the daily variation of the ABL, an ABL description is
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