ESE 134: Boundary Layer and Cloud Dynamics - Lectures


Here follows a list of topics covered during each lecture and references to reading material from suggested textbooks.


  • Tuesday, April 2 -- The atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary layers over land and ocean. Turbulence. Statistical description of turbulence: TKE, turbulent transport and fluxes. (Garratt, Ch. 1)

  • Thursday, April 4 -- Spectral Kolmogorov theory: inertial range, dissipation scale and energy dissipation (Vallis, Ch. 8.1-8.3). Reynolds averaging and decomposition. Governing equations: Continuity equation, Equation of state (Garratt, 2.1-2.2)