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Boundary-Layer Meteorology dedicated to the memory of Professor Sergej S. Zilitinkevich

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This special issue of Boundary-Layer Meteorology is dedicated to the memory of Professor Sergej S. Zilitinkevich, a distinguished scientist who passed away on 15 February 2021 at the age of 84. Sergej Zilitinkevich has made an outstanding contribution to the various fields of science, including dynamics of planetary boundary layers, air-sea interaction, geophysical environmental turbulence, general circulations of the Earth’s and planetary atmospheres, theory of climate, and physical aspects of modelling water ecosystems. A few remarkable scientific results of Sergej Zilitinkevich should be particularly mentioned. The Zilitinkevich depth scale for the stably-stratified planetary boundary layer is typically referred to without citing the original 1972 Boundary-Layer Meteorology article. That depth scale is called by Sergej Zilitinkevich’s name, indicating that the result is truly classical one. Also worthy of mention are the Zilitinkevich correction to the rate equation for the depth of a convectively mixed layer, and the resistance and heat and mass transfer laws for stratified geophysical turbulent flows. Those results have paved the way for enhanced theories and parameterizations of boundary layers in geophysical flows. It would be fair to say that boundary-layer dynamics was a major scientific interest of Sergej, who published intensively in Boundary-Layer Meteorology over several decades. The special issue contains a number of articles whose scope is closely related to Sergej’s scientific interests (some articles report novel results along the lines of research initiated by Sergej). In this way, it makes a notable contribution to commemorating Sergej Zilitinkevich’s legacy.

Editors

  • Dmitrii Mironov Dmitrii Mironov , 

    Dmitrii Mironov

    Dmitrii Mironov obtained his M.S. (Leningrad State University) and Ph.D. (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia) in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology. He conducted research and published in a number of areas, including dynamics of fresh-water lakes, dynamics of planetary boundary layers, turbulence closure modeling, and LES and DNS of geophysical turbulence. In 1999, Dmitrii joined the R&D Division, Physical Parameterization Section, of the German Weather Service, Offenbach, Germany. The focus of Dmitrii’s current activities is on parameterization of physical processes in NWP and climate models.

  • Andrey Grachev Andrey Grachev  &

    Andrey Grachev

    Andrey holds MS and PhD degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He was a research scientist at A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Moscow), Arizona State University (Tempe AZ), and University of Colorado CIRES/NOAA Physical Sciences Lab (Boulder CO). He currently a physicist with the Atmospheric Dynamics & Analytics Branch, Army Research Lab (White Sands NM). His research has focused on the turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layers over land/sea/ice. His research works are also related to making in-situ measurements of the turbulent fluxes and surface meteorology.

  • Alexander Baklanov Alexander Baklanov

    Alexander Baklanov

    Alexander (PhD in Geophysics – 1983, DrSci in Meteorology & Climatology – 1998, Professor in Meteorology – 2008) is a science officer of World Meteorological Organization, professor at Copenhagen University, chief editor of Urban Climate journal. He has 40 years experience in atmospheric research, in developing a new generation of integrated meteorology-chemistry models, especially for urban areas. Led a number of international projects, was a chief scientist of a Russian Academy of Science institute, a scholar of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a senior scientist of Danish Meteorological Institute.

Articles (22 in this collection)

  13. On Surface Waves in Arctic Seas

    Authors (first, second and last of 4)

    • Vladimir Kudryavtsev
    • Vahid Cheshm Siyahi
    • Bertrand Chapron
    • Content type: Research Article
    • Published: 12 December 2022
    • Pages: 267 - 294

  18. Thermal Roughness of the Fen Surface

    Authors (first, second and last of 5)

    • A. I. Varentsov
    • S. S. Zilitinkevich
    • P. K. Alekseychik
    • Content type: Research Article
    • Published: 21 September 2022
    • Pages: 213 - 227