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Week
Topic
Readings before Tuesday
Readings before Thursday
Written homework to turn in Tuesday next week in class
1
Mean BL characteristics
BLM Ch 1, p1-11.
ABL p687-691.
BLM Ch 1, p12-23.
ABL p692-700 top half.
Acquire textbooks.
2
Statistical tools, TKE, eddy fluxes, Reynolds stress
BLM Ch 2, p29-47.
ABL p705-708 top half.
BLM Ch 2, p47-62.
ABL p700-702 top quarter.
BLM Ch 2, Exercises 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 26.
3
Mean governing eqs for turbulent flow BLM Ch 2, p63-68.
ABM p711-713 top half.
BLM Ch 3, p75-87 (top 3/4 of page)
BLM Ch 3, p87-109 BLM Ch 3, Exercises 8, 12, 19, 24.
4
Forecast eqs for turbulent fluxes and variances
BLM Ch 4, p115-134 (top half)
BLM Ch 4, p134-147 BLM Ch 4, Exercises 1, 2, 10, 11 (except do it for the c variance)
5
Turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) forecast eqs., and flow stability concepts.
BLM Ch 5, p151-169 top third.
ABL p708-710 top paragraph.
BLM Ch 5, p169-187.
ABL p710.
BLM Ch 5, Exercises 3, 5, 21, 22, 25.
6
Turbulence closures
BLM Ch 6, p197-224 top quarter.
ABL p713-715
BLM Ch 6, p224-242 top quarter.
T3 read first half (but skip the analytical T3 sections).  Skim last half.
BLM Ch 6, Exercises 4, 7, 12, 17, 24 a&b.
7
Boundary conditions & surface forcings.
BLM Ch 7 all, and PM p68-71.
Midterm Exam Today.  (Open books, notes, calculator)
BLM Ch 7, Exercises 6 (but for Vancouver), and 7.  (due this Thursday, bring your completed HW to the exam.)
8
Statistical tools for time series
BLM Ch 8, p295-314
BLM Ch 8, p315-342 & Wavelet handout.
BLM Ch 8, Exercises 5 (0 to 90 s only), [9, 10, 11, 12 all use DFT or FFT, your choice]
9
Similarity theory
BLM Ch 9, p347-376.
SRH skim all.
BLM Ch 9, p376-395
ABL p700-703 top half.
BLM Ch 9, Exercises 2, 3, 21, 27, 29
10
Measurement and simulation techniques, and Unstable mixed layer (part 1)
BLM Ch 10, whole chapter. BLM Ch 11, p441-460.
ABL p697-698
BLM Ch 10, Exercises 3, 4, 11, 15, 20 (no tilde above Qs & Qg)
11
Unstable mixed layer (daytime, convective, part 2), and Stable BL-part 1
BLM Ch 11, p461-487.
ABL p703-704 and 735-737.
BLM Ch 12, p499-520.
ABL p696.
BLM Ch 11, Exercises 5, 6, 7, 11, 14 (assume zi = 2 km).
12
Stable boundary layer (nighttime)- part 2, and BL Clouds-part 1.
BLM Ch 12, p520-538. 
SBL all.  
BLM Ch 13, p545-560 BLM Ch 12, Exercises 1[use (w'theta's)bar = QT], 6[use Ug=G], 10.
13
BL Clouds-part 2 and Geographic effects
BLM Ch 13, p560- 578. 
ABL skim p159-178 .
BLM Ch 14, whole chapter.
ABL skim: 645-679.
BLM Ch 13, Exercises 3, 4, 5, 9
BLM Ch 14, Exercises 1, 3, 5, 11 (due before Friday next week)






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