Atmospheric Boundary Layer — IFYGL

Summary

The IFYGL Boundary Layer program produced an excellent file of experimental data on both the micro- and mesoscale meteorological fields over a large lake. Improved estimates of the surface energy fluxes were obtained which can be utilized to derive the lake energy budget and to correlate with lake physical, chemical and biological events. Experimental information was obtained which permitted evaluation of the boundary layer parameterization methods over a water surface. General agreement with existing hypothesis was found although boundary layer profiles were observed to depart significantly from over-land characteristics.

The author wishes to recognize that results reported here are largely the work of others. Credit has been given in both the text and figures. Also recognized is the large number of important contributions which space has not permitted inclusion herein. The reader is urged to refer to the summary by HOLLAND et al. (1977) for a more complete report of the IFYGL Atmospheric Boundary Layer findings or to the original works.