The flows over four two-dimensional triangular hills and three two-dimensional bell-shaped hills have been investigated in a simulated rural atmospheric boundary layer modelled to a scale of 1 : 300: Further measurements were made over two of the triangular hills in a simulated rural boundary layer of 1 : 3000 scale and in a simulated urban boundary layer modelled to a scale of 1 : 400. The effect of the model hill surface roughness was also investigated. Flow measurements were restricted to the mean velocity 8, RMS velocity fluctuations u' and the energy spectra for the streamwise velocity component Measurements were made at a number of longitudinal positions in the approach Row, over the model hills and downstream of the model hills. For each model hill, the crest was the region of largest mean velocity and smallest velocity fluctuations. The largest mean velocities over the model hills occurred for hills of intermediate slope rather than for the steepest hills. A decrease in the scale of the simulated atmospheric boundary layer led to a reduction in the amplification factors at the hill crests, whereas an increase in the surface roughness of the approach flow resulted in increased amplification factors at the hill crests.
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Amplification factor defined as the mean wind speed at a height r above level ground divided by the reference mean wind speed measured at the same height above ground level but in the undisturbed flow over flat ground, upstream of the hill, zero-plane displacement height, model hill height, Boundary-Layer Meteorology 21 (1981) 77-92.