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Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL)

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Atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) also known as planetary boundary layer (PBL) also determined as the region of the lower levels of the troposphere (Sanchez-Lavega 2011). Before studying in detail the influence of the Earth's surface on the main physical processes in the atmosphere (e.g. heat, moisture and momentum exchange through turbulence, mixing and convection), we will briefly focus on the historical development of ABL.

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  1. Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Wien, Wien, Austria

    Vlado Spiridonov

  2. Department of Meteorology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Mladjen Ćurić

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Spiridonov, V., Ćurić, M. (2021). Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL). In: Fundamentals of Meteorology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52655-9_14

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