On the Integral of the Surface Layer Profile-Gradient Functions

1 August 1977

journal article
Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Applied Meteorology

Vol. 16 (8) , 859-860
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1977)016<0859:otiots>2.0.co;2

Abstract

New forms of the exact primitives (Nickerson and Smiley, 1975) for the Businger et al. (1971) surface layer gradients are described for the unstable case. In addition to all the theoretical advantages of the Nickerson and Smiley solution, the new formulas do not suffer from a numerical divergence problem which so far has hindered the free use of the exact primitives for the slightly unstable case.

Keywords

SURFACE LAYER