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Table of contents



Chapter 1. Overview

Chapter 2. Radiation

Chapter 3. Turbulent diffusion and interactions with the surface

Chapter 4. Subgrid-scale orographic drag

Chapter 5. Convection

Chapter 6. Clouds and large-scale precipitation

Chapter 7. Land suface parametrization

Chapter 8. Methane oxidation

Chapter 9. Climatological data

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CHAPTER 3
Turbulent diffusion and interactions with the surface




Table of contents




3.1 Introduction


3.2 The surface layer
  3.2.1 Surface fluxes
  3.2.2 Stability functions
  3.2.3 Computation of the Obukhov length
  3.2.4 Roughness lengths


3.3 The exchange coefficients above the surface layer
  3.3.1 General
  3.3.2 The exchange coefficients


3.4 Solution of the vertical diffusion equation


3.5 The skin temperature


3.6 Tendency calculations and energy dissipation


3.7 Shorter time step in the vertical diffusion scheme


3.8 Diagnostic computations for postprocessing


3.8.1 Diagnostic boundary layer height


3.8.2 Wind at 10 m level
  3.8.3 Temperature and humidity at the 2 m level


3.8.4 Wind gusts


3.9 Code


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