Environmental Fluid Dynamics

Course Resources

• Syllabus

Lectures

• Lecture 1: Introduction

  • Arya Chapter 1

• Lecture 2: Radiation

  • Arya Chapter 2

  • Arya Chapter 3

  • Higgins et al. (2012)

  • Nadeu et al. (2013)

  • Froidevaux et al. (2013)

• Lecture 3: Radiation & Heat Transfer in Soils

  • Oke Chapter 2

  • Liou Chapter 1.1, 1.2

  • Grimmond at al. (1991)

  • Grimmond and Oke (1999)

  • Klein and Rotach (2004)

• Lecture 4: Intro to Atmospheric Thermodynamics

• Lecture 5: Dry Adiabatic Atmosphere

• Lecture 6: Moist Unsaturated Atmosphere

• Lecture 7: Evapotranspiration/Stability

  • Arya Chapter 5

  • Stull Chapter 7

  • Wallace and Hobbs Chapter 3

• Lecture 8: Basic Equations - Mass, Momentum

• Lecture 9: Basic Equations - Momentum, continued

• Lecture 10: Basic Equations - Momentum, continued

• Lecture 11: Momentum, Scale Analysis and Approximations

• Lecture 12: The Ekman Layer

• Lecture 13: Taylor-Proudman Theorem and Thermal Wind

  • Kundu Chapter 14

• Lecture 14: Basic Equations - Mechanical/Thermal Energy

• Lecture 15: Introduction to Turbulence

• Lecture 16: Statistical Tools for Studying Turbulence

  • Pope, Chapter 3

• Lecture 17: Turbulent Momentum/Buoyancy Flux Budgets

• Lecture 18: TKE and Buoyancy Variance Budgets

• Lecture 19: Dynamic Instability in the Atmosphere

• Lecture 20: Buckingham Pi Theory and MOST

  • Monin-Obukhov (1954)

• Lecture 21: MOST Relationships and Surfaces Roughness

• Lecture 22: Integral Forms of Flux-Profile Relationships

• Lecture 23: Turbulent Energy Cascade and Fourier Transforms

  • "Weather Prediction by Numerical Process" - Richardson (1922)

  • Kolmogorov (1941)

  • Pope, Appendix D-G

  • Stull, Chapter 8.4-8.6

  • Example of taking a Fourier transform

  • Example of computing stats (moments and spectra) of turbulence data

  • Observation data

  • Simulation data

• Lecture 24: Practical Time Series Analysis

  • Tennekes and Lumley, Chapter 8

Homework

• Homework #1

  • Solutions

• Homework #2

  • Balloon data

  • Solutions

Projects

• Project #1

  • Radiation model handout

  • Dugway Solar radiation Data

  • BLLAST IOP 5 Radiation Data

  • LUMPS Data set

  • Rammamurthy and Pardyjak (2011)

  • Grimmond and One (2002): LUMPS Paper

  • Grimmond and One (1991): OHM Model

  • Example AMS conference article

• Project #2

  • Materhorn operations plan

  • Chapter on sonic anemometers

  • CSAT3 Coordinate System Figure

  • RM Young 81000 manual

  • Campbell Scientific wind direction example

  • Convert between wind direction and components

Exams

• Mid-term Exam (in-class)

  • Solutions

• Mid-term Exam (take-home)

  • Solutions