Surface renewal model

From Glossary of Meteorology



surface renewal model

A turbulent exchange model that assumes that fluid near a surface is intermittently replaced by well-mixed fluid from adjacent layers, thereby disrupting the viscous sublayer at the surface itself.

Near-surface gradients are assumed to be restored by conduction according to
ams2001glos-Se89
where T is temperature and κ is thermal diffusivity.

Kraus, E. B., and J. A. Businger 1994. Atmosphere–Ocean Interaction. Oxford University Press, . 138–147.


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