Estimates of meteorological regime variations on the coast of a heated water body

The results of field measurements of wind speed, temperature, and relative humidity at the 2-m level during the winter and summer periods of 1991 were used to obtain estimates of perturbations of meteorological values and the area of the zone affected by a heated water body. They are compared with numerical estimates by the model of a horizontally inhomogeneous atmospheric boundary layer. It is shown that the trends toward the variation of meteorological values on the leeside of the pond are the same in both cases, while the greatest deviations of estimates are observed on the shore. The convergence of estimates improves with increasing distance from the water edge.