From Kansas to Galapagos: A Personal Historical Perspective on 50 Years of Boundary-Layer Research
Frank Bradley, CSIRO
Noted Australian scientist Frank Bradley will recount experiences from his career in research on atmospheric boundary layers and air-surface interactions. Dr. Bradley was a principal in the famous Kansas Experiment, a field study of basic surface layer similarity physics conducted on a flat Kansas stubble field in 1968. The Kansas Experiment revolutionized the treatment of turbulence in micrometeorology. It was followed a few years later by the Minnesota Experiment, which extended the findings of Kansas to the convective boundary layer. Thirty years later, Dr. Bradley was on a NOAA research cruise (called EPIC2001) off Mexico when the research vessel encountered a rapidly forming Tropical Cyclone Ivo. How did Dr. Bradley go from a wheat field to the edge of a tropical cyclone? How has the science changed since (and before) Kansas? To find out, join us for an informal presentation and discussion as Dr. Bradley recounts his personal journey.
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