Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Integrating Air Chemistry and Land Interactions

This textbook and software provide an introduction to the soil-land-vegetation-atmosphere system for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, hydrology and plant physiology.

Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano (Author), Chiel C. van Heerwaarden (Author), Bart J. H. van Stratum (Author), Kees van den Dries (Author)

9781107090941, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 June 2015

276 pages, 89 b/w illus. 60 colour illus. 43 tables 150 exercises
26.1 x 18.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.78 kg

'The book is ideal for undergraduates and graduates majoring in atmospheric science and a perfect text for courses dealing with the physics, chemistry, and ecology of land-atmosphere interactions. The CLASS model and the supplementary videos available from the website … make the book an appealing companion for a short intensive course or a workshop on the topic. … many aspects of the book will be appreciated by meteorologists, hydrologists, ecologists, air pollution and climate scientists involved in courses dealing with the intersection between all these fields.' Gabriel G. Katul and Jose D. Fuentes, Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Based on more than twenty years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the atmosphere and the land for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for researchers in atmospheric physics and chemistry, hydrology, and plant physiology. The combination of the book, which provides the essential theoretical concepts, and the associated interactive Chemistry Land-surface Atmosphere Soil Slab (CLASS) software, which provides hands-on practical exercises and allows students to design their own numerical experiments, will prove invaluable for learning about many aspects of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system. This book has a modular and flexible structure, allowing instructors to accommodate it to their own learning-outcome needs.

Part I. The Land-Atmospheric Boundary Layer System: 1. Seeking interdisciplinary connections
Part II. The Uncoupled System: 2. Atmospheric boundary layer dynamics
3. Atmospheric boundary layer chemistry
4. Potential temperature budget: diurnal variation of temperature
5. Moisture budget: diurnal variation of specific moisture
6. Momentum budget: diurnal variation of wind
7. Scalar and CO2 budget: contributions of surface, entrainment and advection
8. Reactant budget: diurnal variation of ozone
Part III. The Coupled System: 9. Atmosphere-vegetation-soil interaction
10. Numerical experiments: atmosphere-vegetation-soil interaction
11. Representing dynamically the vegetation and soil exchanges of carbon dioxide
12. Sensitivity of the atmosphere-vegetation-soil system to climate perturbations
13. Case studies of more complex situations
Part IV. Processes Related to Boundary Layer Clouds: 14. The cloud-topped boundary layer: stratocumulus
15. The scatter cloud-topped boundary layer: shallow cumulus
Part V. User's Guide: CLASS Modules and Variables: 16. CLASS modules
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Conservation of the environment [RNK], Environmental management [RNF], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB]