Articles | Volume 10, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-2227-2010
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-2227-2010
03 Mar 2010
 | 03 Mar 2010

A semi-analytical solution for the mean wind profile in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: the convective case

L. Buligon, G. A. Degrazia, O. C. Acevedo, C. R. P. Szinvelski, and A. G. O. Goulart

Abstract. A novel methodology to derive the average wind profile from the Navier-Stokes equations is presented. The development employs the Generalized Integral Transform Technique (GITT), which combines series expansions with Integral Transforms. The new approach provides a solution described in terms of the quantities that control the wind vector with height. Parameters, such as divergence and vorticity, whose magnitudes represent sinoptic patterns are contained in the semi-analytical solution. The results of this new method applied to the convective boundary layer are shown to agree with wind data measured in Wangara experiment.

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