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The journal Boundary-Layer Meteorology was started in 1970 and has become the premier vehicle for the publication of research papers in its field. Dr R.E. Munn served as Editor-in-Chief until recently. The special 25th Anniversary volume, on which this book is based, was compiled from review and other articles solicited and selected as a `Festschrift' to honour Ted Munn's achievement as editor of the journal over that time.
Articles by leading contributors to the field include reviews of field studies (Askervein, HEXOS, Cabauw) and their impacts; numerical modelling (large-eddy simulation of the surface layer, frontal structures); analyses and critical discussions (of the von Karman constant, bulk aerodynamic formulations, air-sea interaction, vegetation canopies); and reviews or previews of progress in our understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence simulation, Lagrangian descriptions of turbulent diffusion and remote sensing of the boundary layer.
The collection provides an excellent perspective on the state of the subject and where it is headed. It should provide fascinating and stimulating reading for researchers and students of boundary-layer meteorology and related areas.
List of contents
R. E. (Ted) Munn - Founding Editor; A Mini-Biography.- The Atmospheric Boundary Layer - Advances in Knowledge and Application.- Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research at Cabauw.- Experimental Micrometeorology in an Era of Turbulence Simulation.- The Bulk Aerodynamic Formulation over Heterogeneous Surfaces.- The Impact of the Hexos Programme.- The Von Kármán Constant Determined by Large Eddy Simulation.- Frontal Substructures Within the Planetary Boundary Layer.- Review of Lagrangian Stochastic Models for Trajectories in the Turbulent Atmosphere.- Book Review.- Review of Some Basic Characteristics of the Atmospheric Surface Layer.- Air-Sea Fluxes: 25 Years of Progress.- Boundary-Layer Flow over Topography: Impacts of the Askervein Study.- Ground-Based Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: 25 Years of Progress.- Coherent Eddies and Turbulence in Vegetation Canopies: The Mixing-Layer Analogy.- On an Instability Mechanism in a Stably Stratified Atmospheric Layer over a Moistened Surface.- The Footprint for Flux Measurements, from Backward Lagrangian Stochastic Models.- A Model for the Height of the Internal Boundary Layer over an Area with an Irregular Coastline.- Author Index.
Summary
and reviews or previews of progress in our understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence simulation, Lagrangian descriptions of turbulent diffusion and remote sensing of the boundary layer.
