Atmospheric Flows
A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521). This special issue belongs to the section "Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2467
Special Issue Editor
Interests: atmospheric boundary layers; atmospheric turbulence; severe downslope winds; airflow above complex terrains; data (non)stationarity; advanced mathematical and statistical atmospheric data analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Continuous efforts have focused on studying atmospheric flows, largely due to the never-ending attempt to improve the performance of numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate models. It is near impossible to carry out such work without performing measurements and simulations of atmospheric flows and subjecting those two to a synergy. While NWP and climate models can successfully simulate the large-scale dynamics of atmospheric flows today, microscale dynamics and turbulence still represent a great need for improvement through the revision of existing and development of novel turbulence parameterization schemes. This Special Issue will focus on the challenges we encounter in microscale dynamics, which are associated with the study of atmospheric flows over complex terrain, such as downslope winds with mountain wave breaking, extreme gusts, and lee rotors; up- and down-valley flows; extremely stable and unstable boundary layers; near-surface coherent structures; revisiting existing and/or proposing new surface scaling equations considering the (non)stationarity of data; etc.
Dr. Zeljko Vecenaj
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- measurements of atmospheric flows
- NWP simulations of atmospheric flows
- atmospheric stable/unstable boundary layers
- atmospheric turbulence
- complex terrain
- downslope winds
- up-valley/down-valley flows
- data (non)stationarity
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