Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 1

Baroclinic Ekman spirals

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 2

Surface wind crossing angle vs. thermal wind

Hoxit 1974

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 3

Cold advection: cross-isobar flow

Warm advection: Along-isobar flow

Over water: along-isobar flow

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 4

Horizontal sections of u’ from LES of shear-driven turbulence

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 5

LES vertical section of u’ in shear-driven PBL

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 6

Rolls in LES weakly convective PBL

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 7

Convective PBL (Rayleigh-Benard)

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 8

Velocity variance profiles

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 9

TKE budgets Moeng and Sullivan 1994

Atm S 547 Lecture 7, Slide 10

LES-simulated entrainment event in a convective PBL

Sullivan et al. 1998

Atm S 547 Lecture 8, Slide 11

Observational support for DCBL entrainment closure

′w ′b (h) = −0.2B0