ME 469Dynamics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Fall, Spring
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1991–92 to 1994–95 (before that, 1979–80 to 1989–90 used the number for Introduction to the Environmental Sciences); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
For those students interested in working on engineering problems that involve the flow of air in the lower kilometre of the atmosphere. Topics to be studied include: composition of the atmopshere, surface wind variation, vertical variation of temperature, pressure, and moisture, basic moisture thermodynamics, fluid mechanics on rotating earth, physics of atmospheric turbulence, atmospheric stability, vertical variation of wind, inversion layer dynamics, introduction to atmospheric diffusion processes.
As printed in the 1991–92 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1979–80 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1991–92 to 1994–95 4 calendars
For those students interested in working on engineering problems that involve the flow of air in the lower kilometre of the atmosphere. Topics to be studied include: composition of the atmopshere, surface wind variation, vertical variation of temperature, pressure, and moisture, basic moisture thermodynamics, fluid mechanics on rotating earth, physics of atmospheric turbulence, atmospheric stability, vertical variation of wind, inversion layer dynamics, introduction to atmospheric diffusion processes.
Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1990–91 calendar.
1979–80 to 1989–90 11 calendars
Another title: Introduction to the Environmental Sciences, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Composition and structure of the atmosphere and oceans. Thermodynamics of moist air. Hydrostatic equation. Stability. Winds and current on a rotating earth gradient, geostropic and inertial flow. Vertical variation of wind, convention, thermals, plumes, basic diffusion theory-coastal currents, gulf streams, tides, internal waves.
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit