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Baroclinic Ekman spirals Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 1 Surface wind crossing angle vs. thermal wind Hoxit 1974 Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 2 Cold advection: Warm advection: Over water: cross-isobar flow Along-isobar flow along-isobar flow


  1. Baroclinic Ekman spirals Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 1

  2. Surface wind crossing angle vs. thermal wind Hoxit 1974 Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 2

  3. Cold advection: Warm advection: Over water: cross-isobar flow Along-isobar flow along-isobar flow Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 3

  4. Horizontal sections of u ’ from LES of shear-driven turbulence Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 4

  5. LES vertical section of u ’ in shear-driven PBL Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 5

  6. Rolls in LES weakly convective PBL Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 6

  7. Convective PBL (Rayleigh-Benard) Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 7

  8. Velocity variance profiles Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 8

  9. TKE budgets Moeng and Sullivan 1994 Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 9

  10. LES-simulated entrainment event in a convective PBL Sullivan et al. 1998 Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 10

  11. Observational support for DCBL entrainment closure w ′ b ( h ) = − 0.2 B 0 ′ Atm S 547 Lecture 8, Slide 11

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