POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE PROFILING IN THE INTERFACE
Primarily for use in plume rise calculations, AERMOD develops the vertical profile of potential temperature from its estimate of the temperature gradient. First the model computes the potential temperature at the reference height for temperature (i.e., zTref ) and from the reference temperature corrected to sea level pressure such that
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and Z SB is the stack base height above mean sea level averaged over all
sources.
Then for both the CBL and SBL the potential temperature is calculated as follows:
Note
that for z < zTref , 
z
< 0.
4 AERMOD’s Meteorological Interface
4.1
General Profiling Equations
4.1.1
WIND SPEED PROFILING IN THE INTERFACE
4.1.2
WIND DIRECTION PROFILES IN INTERFACE
4.1.3
PROFILES OF THE POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT IN THE
INTERFACE
4.1.4
POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE PROFILING IN THE INTERFACE
4.1.5
VERTICAL TURBULENCE CALCULATED BY THE INTERFACE
4.1.6
LATERAL TURBULENCE CALCULATED BY THE INTERFACE
4.2
Vertical Inhomogeneity in the Boundary Layer as Treated by the INTERFACE
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