Premium
Air motion over a heated land mass: II
Author(s) -
Smith R. C.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49708335610
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , function (biology) , motion (physics) , mechanics , meteorology , boundary value problem , boundary (topology) , field (mathematics) , mathematics , geology , environmental science , geometry , physics , mathematical analysis , classical mechanics , astrophysics , evolutionary biology , pure mathematics , biology
In a previous paper (Smith 1955), the problem of the resultant theoretical velocity field that arises from the diurnal variation of heating of a land mass with an initially stationary air mass was considered. The present paper considers the same problem with an initial overall velocity. Henceforth the first paper (Smith 1955) will be referred to as Part I. The same heat function is used as in Part I for the time and horizontal variations, but the vertical variation is amended for closer approximation to the different circumstances. The difficulty of the boundary condition at infinite height is overcome by associating the solutions with those of Pt. I. The resulting surface temperatures and vertical velocities at different times are shown in tables and graphs.