A SUGGESTED REFINEMENT FOR O’BRIEN’S CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER EDDY EXCHANGE COEFFICIENT FORMULATION (Research Note)
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With observational data collected and interpreted by Crane et al. (1977), the adequacy of the O’Brien polynomial to represent the exchange profile of heat and pollution in a convective boundary layer is examined and a refinement suggested. Also, it is shown that the height of the surface layer, h = 0.04 zjr developed by Blackadar and Tennekes (1968) for a neutrally stratified boundary layer (with zi = 0.25u./f) appears to be equally valid for the convective boundary layer where zi, defined as the top of the mixed layer, is used.
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