Dynamical sublayer

From Glossary of Meteorology



dynamical sublayer

A layer of order 1–10 m in thickness adjacent to the surface, where influences of stratification and Coriolis force are negligible, but far enough away from the surface that viscous and individual roughness-element effects are negligible.

Namely, it is where
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, where z is height above the surface and L is Obukhov length, the depth of the sublayer.

Brutsaert, W. 1982. Evaporation into the Atmosphere. Kluwer, . 57–64.


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