Modeling Air-Lake Interaction

Current concern about the stability of our climatic system in light of the influx of manmade components makes the topic of this book, theoretical modeling of a microclimate, of supreme importance. This book provides a good account of the main phenomena determining the thermal and dynamic regimes in air-lake systems and is aimed at students and researchers in climatology and its subdisciplines.

1. New Results in the Theory of Planetary Boundary Layers.- 1.1 Vertical Structure and Energy Transfer Under Neutral and Stable Conditions.- 1.2 The Entrainment Equation for Convection.- 2. Diurnal Cycle of the Atmospheric Planetary Boundary Layer.- 2.1 Parameterization of Energy Transfer Processes.- 2.2 Calculation of Dynamic Parameters.- 3. Air-Water Interaction Parameters over Lakes.- 3.1 Similarity Theory for a Near-Surface Stratified Layer.- 3.2 Parameterization of Fine-Scale Air-Water Interaction.- 3.3 Special Cases.- 4. Wind-Induced Drift of Surface Films.- 4.1 Main Parameters of the Drift Current.- 4.2 Measurements of Drift Roughness in the Laboratory.- 4.3 Drift Roughness from Measurements on Lakes.- 5. Seasonal Changes of Temperature and Mixing Conditions in a Lake.- 5.1 Parameterized TEMIK Model.- 5.2 Numerical Experiments and Comparison with Field Measurements.- 6. Theoretical and Laboratory Investigation of the Thermal Bar.- 6.1 Theoretical Model.- 6.2 Laminar Stage of the Development of the Thermal Bar in Laboratory Experiments.- Future Work.- Table of Symbols.- References.