Booklist, EAS 572, The Atmospheric Boundary-Layer

Please note: this long list is offered for your convenience, in case now or at some future date you may find one or another particularly interesting or useful. The organization by headings is arbitrary and a bit ambiguous. You are not expected to read all these books for EAS 572!

Boundary-layer Flow:

Turbulence in the Atmosphere, J.C. Wyngaard, 2010
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows: their structure and measurement, J.C. Kaimal and J.J. Finnigan, 1994
Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Z. Sorbjan, 1989
The Atmospheric Boundary Layer, J.R. Garrat, 1992
Atmospheric Turbulence, H.A. Panofsky and J.A. Dutton, 1984
An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology, R.B. Stull, 1987
Introduction to Micrometeorology, S.P. Arya, 2001
Workshop on Micrometeorology, Haugen (ed.), 1973
Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment, Steffen and Denmead (eds.), 1988
Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Pollution Modelling, Nieuwstadt and van Dop (eds.), 1982
Workshop on the Planetary Boundary Layer (AMS, 1978)
A First Course in Turbulence, Tennekes and Lumley, 1972
Aerodynamic Characteristics of Atmospheric Boundary Layers, Plate, 1971
Descriptive Micrometeorology, Munn, 1966
The Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence, Lumley and Panofsky, 1964

Applied Micrometeorology:

Lectures on Air Pollution Modelling, Venkatram and Wyngaard (eds.), 1988
Atmospheric Diffusion, F. Pasquill and F.B. Smith, 1983
Turbulent Diffusion in the Environment, Csanady, 1973
Microclimate and Spray Dispersion, Bache and Johnstone, 1992
Vegetation and the Atmosphere, J.L. Monteith (ed.), 1975
Evaporation into the Atmosphere, W. Brutsaert, 1982
The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, R.A. Bagnold, 1941

Fluid Mechanics (and convective transport) generally:

Fluid Mechanics, Yih, 1977
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, G.K. Batchelor, 1985
Vectors, Tensors and the Basic Equations of Fluid mechanics, Aris, 1962
Transport Phenomena, Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot, 1960
Boundary-Layer Theory, Schlichting, 1968
A Mathematical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Chorin and Marsden, 1979
Waves in Fluids, J. Lighthill, 1978
Vortex Dynamics, P.G. Saffman, 1992
Fluid Mechanics, F.M. White, 1986

Turbulence in General (not particularly applied or connected to the ABL):

Turbulent Flows, S.B. Pope, 2000
Turbulence, P.A. Davidson, 2004
Statistical Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 1, Monin and Yaglom, 1977
Turbulence (Topics in Applied Physics, Vol. 12), P. Bradshaw (editor), 1978
Turbulence, J.O. Hinze, 1975
Turbulence in Fluids, M. Lesiur, 1990
Turbulence: The legacy of A.N. Kolmogorov, U. Frisch, 1995
Theoretical Approaches to Turbulence, Dwoyer, Hussaini and Voight, 1985
Turbulence and Stochastic Processes: Kolmogorov's ideas 50 years on, The Royal Society, 1991

Computation of Flow:

Computational models for turbulent reacting flows, R.O. Fox, 2003
Computational mehtods for Fluid Dynamics, J.H. Ferziger and M. Peric, 1997
An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Versteeg and Malalasekera, 1995
Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, S.V. Patankar, 1980

Old Classics:

The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence, G.K. Batchelor, 1953
The structure of turbulent shear flow, A.A. Townsend, 1976
The Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence, J.L. Lumley and H.A. Panofsky, 1964
Turbulent Transfer in the Lower Atmosphere, C.H.B. Priestley, 1959
Micrometeorology, O.G. Sutton, 1953
Fundamentals of hydro- and aerodynamics, Prandtl and Tietjens, 1934

Dimensional Analysis:

Dimensional analysis and theory of models, H.L. Langhaar, 1951

Dimensional analysis, P.W. Bridgman, 1922

Incompressible flow, Panton 1984

Stochastic Processes (relevant to Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model):

In Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics, D.S. Lemons, 2002
Handbook of Stochastic Methods for Physics, Chemistry and the Natural Sciences, C.W. Gardiner, 2004

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