Note on the viscous heating term in the temperature variance equation

Since more than a dozen papers relating to atmospheric boundary layers are published every month, it is necessary to restrict the scope of this review. Here we address only fundamental aspects of the physics of the boundary layer and exclude research related to instrumentation, specific applied areas of boundary layer research, and interactions with larger‐scale circulations. Some aspects of the boundary layer will be treated very briefly or included only in the reference lists while other topics, which have been omitted in past reviews, will be covered in more depth. Wyngaard (1978, 1979), Paegle (1979), Zeman (1981) and Nieuwstadt (1982) recently surveyed many aspects of atmospheric boundary layer research.

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Note on the viscous heating term in the temperature variance equation

Abstract: Experimental results in the atmospheric surface layer indicate that the viscous heating term in the equation for the mean-square value of the turbulent temperature fluctuation is small, but the correlation between temperature and turbulent energy dissipation fluctuations is significant.

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A comparison of near-surface potential temperature variance budgets for unstable atmospheric flows with contrasting vegetation cover flat surfaces and a gentle slope

A comparison of near-surface potential temperature variance budgets for unstable atmospheric flows with contrasting vegetation cover flat surfaces and a gentle slope

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