Atmospheric Boundary Layer Modeling and Observation
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 2555
Special Issue Editors
Interests: turbulence; atmospheric boundary layers; hurricanes; geophysical fluid dynamics; large-eddy simulations; numerical weather prediction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is the lowest layer of the atmosphere which is in contact with the surface of the Earth. The ABL plays a central role in many fields, such as air pollution, wind energy, urban meteorology, hydrology, and weather forecasting, yet our understanding of the ABL is limited due to the many complexities that it includes, such as land–atmosphere and air–sea interactions, baroclinicity, stratification, unsteadiness, turbulence, waves, and surface heterogeneities that have not been comprehensively studied.
In recognition of the significance of ABLs, the open-access journal Atmosphere is hosting a Special Issue to expand the current knowledge on new frontiers in ABL modeling and observations. Some open research topics related to this Special Issue include but are not limited to
- Diabatic ABLs: stable and unstable;
- Hurricane boundary layers;
- Wind energy and the role of the ABL;
- Urban micrometeorology;
- ABL over complex terrain and surface heterogeneity;
- Turbulent processes in ABLs;
- ABL parameterizations and closures;
- ABLs in numerical weather prediction models;
- Large-eddy simulations of ABLs;
- Data-driven discoveries of ABLs;
- New measurements of ABLs (e.g., eddy covariance, lidars, and sounding).
The goal of this Special Issue is to address some of the existing knowledge gaps in the understanding and modeling of ABLs and provide new insights into the fundamental physics of ABLs that have not been comprehensively established yet.
Dr. Mostafa Momen
Dr. Jun A. Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- atmospheric boundary layers
- turbulence
- wind energy
- hurricane boundary layers
- urban meteorology
- numerical weather prediction
- weather research and forecasting model
- large-eddy simulations
- measurements
- doppler lidars
- eddy covariance
