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Role of Vortex Structures in the Surface Layer in the Radiation Interaction between Underlying Surface and Air

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By the 1950s, it was revealed that assumptions of the semiempirical statistical theory of the surface layer created by A.S. Monin and A.M. Obukhov, strictly speaking, fail. The existence of organized (coherent) structures in the surface layer and their main role in the advective (turbulent) vertical transfer of heat, momentum, and impurities have been experimentally proved. The decisive role of the radiation in the formation of the air temperature profile is obvious. This work is an attempt to qualitatively describe how organized vortex structures interact with radiation thermal conductivity during heat transfer from the underlying surface to the atmosphere.

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Koprov, B.M., Koprov, V.M. Role of Vortex Structures in the Surface Layer in the Radiation Interaction between Underlying Surface and Air. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 56, 414–421 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433820040052

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