If you’ve ever gone into the woods on a windy day, you know that conditions there are drastically different than in the open. To blowing wind, trees of different sizes Keep reading
Tag: planetary boundary layer
City Winds Simulated
Anyone who has spent much time in an urban environment is familiar with the gusty turbulence that can be generated by steady winds interacting with tall buildings. To the atmospheric Keep reading
Flow in Urban Areas
While we typically think about boundary layers as a small region near the surface of an object–be it airplane, golf ball, or engine wall–boundary layers can be enormous, like the Keep reading
Cloud Streets
Cloud streets–long rows of counter-rotating air parallel to the ground in the planetary boundary layer–are thought to form as a result of cold air blowing over warm waters while caught Keep reading