BOUNDARY LAYER METEOROLOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe key features, governing equations, and parameterization of turbulence for the fluid atmosphere and ocean, including Reynolds averaging, similarity theory, and large-eddy simulation. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply turbulence theories and surface energy balance to explain the evolution and development of the surface layer, entrainment zone, and neutral, convective, and stable atmospheric boundary-layers. Audience: Graduate 3. Interpret how boundary-layer processes impact lower atmosphere phenomena such as flux measurement, air pollution dispersion, urban heat islands, sea breezes, terrain-induced flow. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe key features, governing equations, and parameterization of turbulence for the fluid atmosphere and ocean, including Reynolds averaging, similarity theory, and large-eddy simulation. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply turbulence theories and surface energy balance to explain the evolution and development of the surface layer, entrainment zone, and neutral, convective, and stable atmospheric boundary-layers. Audience: Graduate 3. Interpret how boundary-layer processes impact lower atmosphere phenomena such as flux measurement, air pollution dispersion, urban heat islands, sea breezes, terrain-induced flow. Audience: Graduate