Observing Micrometeorology : A Personal Tour Through an Evolving Science / Bruce B. Hicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, B. B., author.

Series:

Earth sciences in the 21st century series.

Earth Sciences in the 21st Century Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Micrometeorology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"In early 1962, at the age of 21, Bruce Hicks found himself temporarily in charge of a micrometeorological experimental program conducted at Kerang, in Victoria (Australia). He had no schooling in the atmospheric sciences, and so started a self-education program based on (a) what he saw with his own eyes, (b) what his mentors told him and (c) textbook lore. He quickly discovered that others in that group of researchers at CSIRO in Australia (under the leadership of C. H. B. Priestley) shared his misgivings about some of the science that was then rapidly becoming disciplinary dogma. A career in experimental meteorology followed, accompanied by bursts of unrestrained iconoclasm. After migrating to the USA in 1973 and serving a sojourn as Director of the Air Resources Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he returned to his favorite science with new vigor in 2006. He quickly found that new instrumentation and new researchers were yielding mountains of reasons to reconsider what textbooks often teach. His book reveals the bases for his revised understanding of air-surface exchange, the surface boundary layer, and the atmospheric and terrestrial features that influence them. This is not a textbook. Rather, it is a summary of how the teachings of textbooks might be interpreted in the light of information more recently available. This is an update of the basics that underpinned an evolving science before it was kidnapped by computers and modeling. He is not trying to change the science. Oh, heck. Yes, he is"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

The Early Cast

Part I: The Origins of Convention

Chapter 1

Airplanes, Airships and Gas Warfare

Chapter 2

Pipe-Flows and Flate-Plates

Conclusion

Chapter 3

The Agricultural Incentive - Water Resources

Chapter 4

Interpreting the Surface Heat Energy Balance

Chapter 5

Introducing Plant Physiology

Chapter 6

The Birth of MOST

Chapter 7

Measurements of Fluxes and Profiles - the Early Days

Chapter 8

The Legacy Flux/Gradient Relationships

Chapter 9

Modeling and Tribalism

Chapter 10

Consider the Oceans

Part II: Rethinking the Basics

Chapter 11

Stepping Forward

Chapter 12

Turbulence, Fluxes and Statistics

Chapter 13

Data Normalization and Dimensional Analysis

Chapter 14

Time Stationarity in the SBL

Chapter 15

Extending the Legacy Relationships

Chapter 16

Correlations and the Role of u*

Chapter 17

The Unstable Case and Free Convection

Chapter 18

Nighttime and Intermittency

Chapter 19

The Morning Transition

Chapter 20

The Evening Transition

Chapter 21

The Ocean Case - Some Common Issues

Part III: Towards Complexity

Chapter 22

Revisiting Turbulence Statistics

Chapter 23

Footprints and Fetch

Chapter 24

Representativeness

Chapter 25

The Peculiar Situation - Neutrality

Chapter 26

Sources, Sinks and Zero Planes

Chapter 27

Kinematic Isolation in Strong Stability (KISS)

Chapter 28

Cities and Urban Areas

Conclusion.

Chapter 29

Agricultural Checkerboards

Chapter 30

Onwards Toward Complexity

Part IV: The Role of Vegetation

Chapter 31

More on Zero Planes and Roughness

Chapter 32

Roughness Lengths and kB-1

Chapter 33

Canopy Breathing - Sweeps and Ejections

Chapter 34

Once Again - the 'Big Leaf'

Chapter 35

Heat Energy Apportionment

Chapter 36

The Origin of Convection

Chapter 37

Introducing the Soil

Chapter 38

An Eclipse Case Study

Part V: Chemical Sources, Sinks, and Dispersion

Chapter 39

Dry and Wet Deposition

Chapter 40

Deposition Collection

Chapter 41

Laboratory and Pipe Studies

Chapter 42

Deposition to Buildings and Structures

Chapter 43

Enter, Micrometeorology

Chapter 44

The Multiple Resistance Analogy: Trace Gases

Reconsidering the Big Leaf

Ra: The Aerodynamic Resistance

Rb: The Quasi-Laminar Link between the Air and the Surface

Rc: The Surface Resistance

Chapter 45

The Multiple Resistance Model: Particles

Chapter 46

Dense Canopies and Complex Terrain

Chapter 47

Suspension and Resuspension

Chapter 48

Indirect Monitoring of Dry Deposition

Chapter 49

Concentrated Gas Deposition and Canopy Retention

Chapter 50

Dispersion - Prairie Grass etc.

Chapter 51

Dispersion in Cities and Urban Areas

Chapter 52

Dispersion Affecting the Far Field

Part VI: Looking Forward

Chapter 53

Flat-Earth Micrometeorology

Chapter 54

Assembling the Pieces

Chapter 55

Extension to Modeling

Chapter 56

The Need for New Studies

Part VII: ENVOI

Appendix 1: Recurring Symbols

Appendix 2: Acronyms

Appendix 3: Details of Sites at Which Observations Presented Here Were Obtained

References

About the Author

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Hicks, Bruce B. Observing Micrometeorology: a Personal Tour Through an Evolving Science

ISBN:

9798886974263

OCLC:

1351199831