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  • Turbulence structure within an inclined laboratory convection tank

    Creator:
    Nance, Jon D.
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    A baroclinic, convective mixed-layer was modeled, using water, in a laboratory convection tank identical to that used in the free convection study of Deardorff and Willis (1985). Baroclinicity and mean-flow shearing were achieved by tilting the tank by an angle of 1O⁰. The resulting mechanical-production rate of turbulence kinetic energy...
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    Masters Thesis
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    boundary layer in a state of free convection (Willis and Deardorff, 1974; Deardorff and Willis, 1985) For

  • Dynamics of a differentially-heated geophysical boundary layer

    Creator:
    Smith, Bartlett Knapp
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    An analytical two-layer model consisting of a time-dependent stratified boundary layer topped by stratified free flow is developed in order to study atmospheric boundary layer production of vertical motion. To avoid use of a constant eddy viscosity, the boundary layer equations are layer-integrated over a fixed depth, and surface stress...
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    Masters Thesis
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    0 and p. Neglecting turbulent fluxes at the boundary layer top and layer-integrating equations (7

  • Influence of stratification and accelerations on boundary production of vertical motion

    Creator:
    Park, Soon-Ung
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    The influence of boundary layer pumping on an externally-forced synoptic-scale flow is examined. The results follow earlier theories of stratified incompressible Boussinesq flow. These theories state that the spin-down time scale and the penetration depth of the influence of boundary layer pumping are inversely proportional to the stratification and directly...
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    Dissertation
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    turbulent diffusion of vorticity. Thus, boundary layer pumping is thought to be an important feedback

  • Turbulent structure in the bora and stable boundary layer

    Creator:
    Frank, Helmut P.
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    An eigenvector analysis of the velocity-temperature correlation matrix is applied to clear-air turbulence measured by aircraft in the Bora. The eigenvectors are identified with the main eddies of the turbulence. This study attempts to infer the three-dimensional structure of these eddies. The results are compared with turbulent structures in the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Bora and Stable Boundary Layer Abstract approved: Larry Mahrt An eigenvector analysis of the

  • A numerical study of mesoscale motion in the atmospheric mixed layer

    Creator:
    Ruscher, Paul Harold
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    The numerical modeling of motions in the atmosphere's planetary boundary layer (PBL) is a challenging task. In general, the boundary layer interacts with both the overlying atmosphere and the underlying land or water surface in a complex manner. Random turbulence is also present in the PBL which precludes exact prediction...
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    Masters Thesis
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    interaction. The boundary layer is a turbulent fluid; turbulence is a random, small-scale flow phenomenon

  • Turbulent and gravity wave transport in the free atmosphere

    Creator:
    Kim, Jinwon
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    Dissertation
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    , and additional local shear generation of turbulent mixing in the upper part of stable boundary layer

  • Numerical simulation of planetary boundary-layer evolution and mesoscale flow over irregular terrain under daytime heating conditions

    Creator:
    Ueyoshi, Kyozo
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    The influence of irregular terrain on the evolution of the daytime planetary boundary layer (PBL) and meso-β scale dry circulations is studied using two three-dimensional hydrostatic σ-coordinate models with different approaches for the PBL parameterizations; the 4-layer model uses the mixed-layer (bulk-layer) approach, while the 7-layer model adopts the eddy-diffusivity...
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    Dissertation
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    PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER ...... 27 3.1 Determination of Turbulent Fluxes ........... 27 3.1.1 Bulk Transfer

  • Photographic analysis of buoyant stack plumes in a laboratory model of the turbulent mixed layer

    Creator:
    Hukari, Neil F.
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    Four buoyant plumes were produced within a laboratory convectively mixed layer from a source height of about z[subscript s] = 0.15 h, where h is the height of the convectively mixed layer. The projected images of these plumes in the X-Z plane were analyzed using a densitometer (photomultiplier tube) to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Buoyant Stack Plumes in a Laboratory Model of the Turbulent Mixed Layer Abstract approved: Four buoyant

  • Penetrative elements at the top of the atmospheric mixed layer

    Creator:
    Paumier, James
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    High resolution data of moisture, temperature and wind velocity collected by aircraft during the 1975 Air Mass Transformation Experiment (ANTEX '75) provide information for detailed investigations of the phenomena occurring at the top of a cloud-topped mixed layer. Joint frequency diagrams of humidity and temperature reveal that for parts of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Numerous statistical studies of the top of the atmospheric boundary layer have been conducted, both

  • An examination of structure and parameterization of turbulence in the stably-stratified atmospheric boundary layer

    Creator:
    Ruscher, Paul Harold
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    The very stable boundary layer is a region of the atmosphere typified by large vertical gradients of temperature and momentum. Analysis of very stable atmospheric flows is complicated by the presence of nonlinear interactions among gravity waves, shear-driven overturning circulations, two-dimensional vortical modes and intermittent turbulence in various stages of...
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    Dissertation
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    affected by turbulent mixing. Many models of the stable boundary layer artificially arrest the mixing