1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Vertical Diffusion Parameter in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Author : Laura E. Venegas
Published in: Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application X
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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This paper presents relations between the mean vertical displacement ($$\bar z$$) of pollutants and their mean horizontal displacement (x$$\bar x$$ ) in the atmospheric boundary layer. A modification of the lagrangian similarity theory applied to atmospheric diffusion extended to the atmospheric boundary layer is developed. According to Pasquill and Smith (1983) the similarity theory of Monin-Obukhov applied to atmospheric diffusion states 1$$\frac{{d\bar x}}{{d\bar z}} - \frac{{\bar u\left( {c\bar z} \right)\bar z}}{{k\left( {\bar z} \right)}}$$ where ū is the mean wind speed, c depends on stability and K is the vertical material diffusivity. Considering the eddy diffusivity for momentum and the form of the friction velocity introduced by Yokoyama et al.(1979) a form of ū(c$$\bar z$$)for the atmospheric boundary layer is developed. Substituting ū(c$$\bar z$$) in Eq.(1), equating K to the heat diffusivity given by Yokoyama et al.(1979) and integrating, the following expressions can be obtained (where z1 is the boundary layer depth, L is the Monin-Obukhov length, θ=$$\bar x$$/z1; α=$$\bar z$$/z1; αo = zo/z1; k=0.41, β=6.9 and γ=0.92): - neutral and stable conditions: (η=z1/L ≥ 0)