ABSTRACT
Evaporation in the atmosphere is strongly dependent on the wind, therefore, a complete laboratory study of evaporation must include experiments in which a flow of air past the evaporating surface is carefully controlled and varied. S. P. S. Arya and E. J. Plate investigated similarity between the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer and a boundary layer developing over a cold plate in a wind tunnel. The basic assumptions of the similarity theory of A. S. Monin and A. M. Obukhov as stated by Arya and Plate are that the flow is plane homogeneous and that vertical fluxes are constant. They stated, “The experimental results are generally in excellent agreement with field data if scaled according to the similarity theory of Monin and Obukhov, thus providing both a proof for the validity of the theory and a justification for modeling of the stably stratified atmospheric boundary in a wind tunnel”.
