Coherent Flow Structures at Earth's Surface (Hardcover)

List of Contributors, vii

Preface, xi

About the Companion Website, xiii

1 What is a Coherent Flow Structure in Geophysical Flow? 1
Jeremy G. Venditti, Richard J. Hardy, Michael Church, & James L. Best

2 Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers 17
Ronald J. Adrian

3 Structural Attributes of Turbulent Flow over a Complex Topography 25
Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Julio M. Barros, & Kenneth T. Christensen

4 Coherent Flow Structures in the Pore Spaces of Permeable Beds underlying a Unidirectional Turbulent Boundary Layer: A Review and some New Experimental Results 43
Gianluca Blois, James L. Best, Kenneth T. Christensen, Richard J. Hardy, & Gregory H. Sambrook Smith

5 Instabilities in Stratified Shear Flow 63
Gregory A. Lawrence, Edmund W. Tedford, & Jeffrey R. Carpenter

6 Scalar Turbulence within the Canopy Sublayer 73
Gabriel G. Katul, Daniela Cava, Mario Siqueira, & Davide Poggi

7 On the Structure of Wall Turbulence in the Thermally Neutral Atmospheric Surface Layer 97
Michele Guala, Jeff LeHew, Meredith Metzger, & Beverley J. McKeon

8 Critical Reflections on the Coherent Flow Structures Paradigm in Aeolian Geomorphology 111
Bernard O. Bauer, Ian J. Walker, Andreas C.W. Baas, Derek W.T. Jackson, Cheryl McKenna Neuman, Giles F.S. Wiggs, & Patrick A. Hesp

9 Coherent Flow Structures in Vegetated Channels 135
Heidi Nepf, Jeffrey Rominger, & Lijun Zong

10 Coherent Eddy Structures over Plant Canopies 149
Roger H. Shaw, Edward G. Patton, & John J. Finnigan

11 SPIV Analysis of Coherent Structures in a Vegetation Canopy Model Flow 161
Laurent Perret & Tony Ruiz