DESCRIPTIVE MICROMETEOROLOGY

R. E. Munn

Penerbit : ACADEMIC PRESS, INC.

Tahun : 1966

Micrometeorology is concerned with the surface boundary layer, that thin slice of atmosphere extending from the ground up to a height of approximately 50 meters. In order to study this layer, one should consider interactions with the underlying surface and with the immediately adjoining part of the atmosphere above (the planetary boundary layer). It is difficult to find a generally acceptable definition of micrometeorology. I would like it to include any atmospheric scale of motion in which the Coriolis force of the earth’s rotation can be neglected. A sea breeze, for example, would then be a microphenomenon at first, a mesoscale circulation later in the day, and a macroscale feature if it were to become a continental monsoon.

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