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Analyses of aircraft observations of the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer during the First ISCCP (International Satellite
Cloud Climatology Project) Regional Experiment (FIRE I) show the frequent presence of clear, but relatively moist, air patches
near the stratocumulus cloud-top interface. A conditional sampling of measurements in these clear air patches shows that their
thermodynamic properties do more resemble boundary-layer air characteristics than those of free troposphere air. From an aircraft
leg through cloud tops it is demonstrated that turbulent mixing across the cloud-top interface can lead to the local dissipation
of the cloud top. Analogous to the terminology used for shallow cumulus parameterizations this process can be considered as
detrainment, with which we mean that after a mixing event across the cloud-top boundaries, mixed unsaturated parcels become
part of the clear environment of the cloud. 相似文献
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Turbulence structure in temperature inversions and in convection fields as observed by doppler sodar
Weill A. Baudin F. Goutorbe J. P. Van Grunderbeeck P. Leberre P. 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1978,15(3):375-390
The structure of turbulence in an inversion layer and in an homogeneous convective field of the planetary boundary layer is
described. In the first part of the paper, we validate the sodar estimates of turbulent dissipation, by using measurements
with an hot-wire anemometric system in situ. Limitations of an ε measurement technique using structure function calculations
are given, taking account of atmospheric properties and acoustic Doppler instrumental effects.
By comparison between isopleths of backscattering intensity and of turbulent dissipation rates, we observe that in the early
morning, turbulence is advected by mechanical turbulence generated by wind shear. The same mechanism seems to be operating
in the case of an inversion layer capping thermal instability, when the convective activity is not too greatly developed.
A turbulent kinetic energy budget is examined using aircraft, sodar, and tower measurements. This indicates a constant turbulent
dissipation profile through a deep convective layer. 相似文献
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Local Imbalance of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in the Surface Layer 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
We utilize experimental data collected in 2002 over an open field in Hanford, Washington, USA, to investigate the turbulent
kinetic energy (TKE) budget in the atmospheric surface layer. The von Kármán constant was determined from the near-neutral
wind profiles to be 0.36 ± 0.02 rather than the classical value of 0.4. The TKE budget was normalized and all terms were parameterized
as functions of a stability parameter z/L, where z is the distance from the ground and L is the Obukhov length. The shear production followed the Businger–Dyer relation for −2 < z/L < 1. Contrary to the traditional Monin–Obukhov similarity theory (MOST), the shear, buoyancy and dissipation terms were found
to be imbalanced due to a non-zero vertical transport over all stabilities. Motivated by this local imbalance, modified parameterizations
of the dissipation and the turbulent transport were attempted and generated good agreement with the experimental data. Assuming
stationarity and horizontal homogeneity, the pressure transport was estimated from the residual of the TKE budget. 相似文献
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Yves Delage 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1988,43(4):365-381
Two formulations of the stable atmospheric boundary layer are proposed for use in weather forecasting or climate models. They feature the log-linear profile near the surface, but are free from the associated critical Richardson number. The diffusion coefficients in the Ekman layer are a natural extension of the surface layer. They are locally determined using wind shear in one case and turbulent kinetic energy in the other. The parameterizations are tested in a one-dimensional model simulating the evolution of the nocturnal boundary layer with and without radiative cooling. Both formulations give very similar results, except near the top of the boundary layer where the transition to the free atmosphere is smoother with the wind shear formulation. A distinctive feature of these schemes is that they retain their simulating skill when resolution is reduced. This is verified for a wide range of situations. In practice, this means that there is no need for a large-scale model to have a level below 50 m or so. 相似文献
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The difficulties associated with the parameterization of turbulence in the stable nocturnal planetary boundary layer (PBL)
have been a great challenge for the nighttime predictions from mesoscale meteorological models such as MM5. As such, there
is a general consensus on the need for better stable boundary-layer parameterizations. To this end, two new turbulence parameterizations
based on the measurements of the Vertical Transport and Mixing (VTMX) field campaign were implemented and evaluated in MM5.
A unique aspect of this parameterization is the use of a stability-dependent turbulent Prandtl number that allows momentum
to be transported by the internal waves, while heat diffusion is impeded by the stratification. This improvement alleviates
the problem of over-prediction of heat diffusion under stable conditions, which is a characteristic of conventional atmospheric
boundary-layer schemes, such as the Medium Range Forecast (MRF) and Blackadar schemes employed in MM5. The predictions made
with the new PBL scheme for the complex terrain airshed of Salt Lake City were compared with those made with a default scheme
of MM5, and with observations made during the VTMX campaign. The new schemes showed an improvement in predictions, particularly
for the nocturnal near-surface temperature. Surface wind predictions also improved slightly, but not to the extent of temperature
predictions. The default MRF scheme showed a significantly higher surface temperature than observed, which could be attributed
to the enhanced vertical heat exchange brought about by its turbulence parameterization. The modified parameterizations reduced
the surface sensible heat flux, thus enhancing the strength of the near-surface inversion and lowering the temperature towards
the observed values. 相似文献
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Z. Petkovšek 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》1992,47(2-4):237-245
Summary Problems of turbulent dissipation of a cold air lake (CAL) and the inversion layer bordering CAL on the upper boundary are presented and studied with the compound model. In wintertime such cold air lakes can persist for days even if rather strong winds are blowing above them. The required conditions for CAL dissipation are removed processes of its formation or maintenance, as well as a sufficiently strong invasion of turbulence in the inversion layer from above down-wards. By this, the inversion layer at first becomes stronger and dissipation is stopped, until the increase of turbulent kinetic energy of the upper flow enables further dissipation. Such turbulent dissipation process is shown by the model for typical conditions and for different initial values of the relevent variables.With 6 Figures 相似文献
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B. R. Bean A. S. Frisch L. G. McAllister J. R. Pollard 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1973,4(1-4):449-474
Clear-air plume and wave-like structures are revealed in the atmospheric boundary layer by combined acoustic remote sensing and meteorological tower measurements. The magnitude of turbulent production and dissipation plus properties of velocity and temperature spectra determined from the tower measurements are well correlated with phenomena indicated by the acoustic sounder. Interpretation of either set of records is greatly enhanced by the other. For example, the onset of a sudden burst of turbulent production from the tower measurements may correspond to plume passage or breaking of stable waves recorded by the acoustic echo sounder. 相似文献
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大气运动的动能在湍流边界层中的耗散 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
在大气能量学中,大气平均运动的动能通过湍流摩擦力转化为脉动运动的能量并最终转化为内能的“变性能量”是大气动能的“汇”,正确估计其大小对研究动能的收支,以至天气系统的生衰,发展均有一定意义。此项由于与湍流通量有关,因而难于从大尺度气象参数计算。以往的研究中,或是将动能平衡方程中其余各项算出,而将此项作为余项估计出,或用地转风由粗浅的边界层模式算出。 相似文献
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Extensive turbulence measurements from the Limagne and Beauce experiments were used to compute a characteristic time scale of the turbulence field (Τ = second moment/dissipation rate) for turbulent kinetic energy, temperature and humidity variances, and temperature-humidity covariance. The height variations of these time scales were analysed. The characteristic half-time scale Τ/2 of the turbulent velocity field was found, as expected, to be of the same order of magnitude as the large-eddy time scale Τ L = Zi/w*, showing that the turbulence structure is controlled by large eddies in the bulk of the mixed layer. The increase of Τ/2 above z/Z i ~- 0.7 implies, however, that this time scale is no longer relevant to destruction of turbulent kinetic energy in the statically stable region with negative heat fluxes. An effective time scale Τeff, introduced by Zeman (1975), has been computed and its behaviour discussed. The scales for θ′ 2, q′2, and θ′q′ were found to be much shorter than Τ. Furthermore, a significant difference in behaviour was also revealed between the characteristic time scales of temperature and humidity fields in the stable layer. By using these experimental estimates, we tested some of the models for molecular dissipations, which are currently in use in higher order closure atmospheric boundary-layer models. The parameterized dissipation rates for θ′ 2, and q′ 2 agree well qualitatively with experimental estimates in the bulk of the mixed layer. In the stable layer, however, the parameterized dissipation rate ε θ tends to become larger than the experimental ones although the parameterized dissipation rate ε q still agrees with the experimental ones. For the molecular dissipation of θ′q′, this current model becomes physically inconsistent in the middle part of the mixed layer, because this term may become a production term for temperature-humidity covariance. 相似文献
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Atmospheric measurements from several field experiments have been combined to develop a better understanding of the turbulence structure of the stable atmospheric boundary layer. Fast response wind velocity and temperature data have been recorded using 3-dimensional sonic anemometers, placed at severalheights (1 m to 4.3 m) above the ground. The measurements wereused to calculate the standard deviations of the three components of the windvelocity, temperature, turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation andtemperature variance dissipation. These data were normalized and plottedaccording to Monin–Obukhov similarity theory. The non-dimensional turbulencestatistics have been computed, in part, to investigate the generalapplicability of the concept of z-less stratification for stable conditions. From the analysis of a data set covering almost five orders ofmagnitude in the stability parameter = z/L (from near-neutral tovery stable atmospheric stability), it was found that this concept does nothold in general. It was only for the non-dimensional standard deviation oftemperature and the average dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energythat z-less behaviour has been found. The other variables studied here(non-dimensional standard deviations of u, v, and w velocity components and dissipation of temperature variance) did not follow the concept of z-less stratification for the very stable atmospheric boundary layer. An imbalance between production and dissipation of TKE was found for the near-neutral limit approached from the stable regime, which matches with previous results for near-neutral stability approached from the unstable regime. 相似文献
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Modelling the arctic convective boundary-layer with different turbulence parameterizations 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Different parameterizations of subgrid-scale fluxes are utilized in a nonhydrostatic and anelastic mesoscale model to study their influence on simulated Arctic cold air outbreaks. A local closure, a profile closure and two nonlocal closure schemes are applied, including an improved scheme, which is based on other nonlocal closures. It accounts for continuous subgrid-scale fluxes at the top of the surface layer and a continuous Prandtl number with respect to stratification. In the limit of neutral stratification the improved scheme gives eddy diffusivities similar to other parameterizations, whereas for strong unstable stratifications they become much larger and thus turbulent transports are more efficient. It is shown by comparison of model results with observations that the application of simple nonlocal closure schemes results in a more realistic simulation of a convective boundary layer than that of a local or a profile closure scheme. Improvements are due to the nonlocal formulation of the eddy diffusivities and to the inclusion of heat transport, which is independent of local gradients (countergradient transport). 相似文献
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《Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans》1988,12(2):143-172
We report on measurements of the structure of the bottom boundary layer on the continental shelf off Vancouver Island. A time series of vertical profiles obtained with the microstructure profiler FLY II revealed large temporal variations in the dissipation rate and in the density structure. The near-bottom current structure was simultaneously measured at fixed heights with conventional current meters.The data reveal the association between the predominantly diurnal tide and the variations in the structure of the bottom boundary layer. A clear distinction appears between the turbulent bottom boundary layer (8–40 m deep in a total water depth of 138 m) and the well-mixed layer (20–40 m deep). The two layers vary independently, with horizontal advection dominating the fluctuations in the thickness of the well-mixed layer while local dissipation is more closely related to the thickness of the turbulent layer. Variations in the density structure of the bottom layer are related to the strength and direction of the vertical shear and to the regional distribution of isopycnals. Current veering is commonly concentrated above the well-mixed layer. The evolution of the characteristics of the bottom layers is followed through a tidal cycle and related to local dissipation and other variables.Microstructure measurements from six locations over the southern portion of the Vancouver Island continental shelf are used to estimate the influence of turbulent energy dissipation on regional-scale flows. That fraction of the dissipation taking place in the bottom boundary layer is attributed to barotropic tidal flows, while that occurring above it is associated with nearly geostrophic baroclinic flows. Results give a lower limit of ∼ 1070 km for the length scale of shelf wave decay, in good agreement with current models; the estimates of tidal friction based on our dissipation measurements are however much lower than required by astronomical observations. An estimate of 230 h is obtained for the spin-down time of the local Tully eddy, rather longer than the decay time of 68 h obtained from observations. 相似文献
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During the Limagne and Beauce experiments, the INAG-IGN Aerocommander FL 280 aircraft made extensive ‘in situ’ measurements of turbulent fluctuations in diurnally evolving convective boundary layers. In this paper, these measurements were used to investigate characteristics of the molecular dissipation of turbulent fluctuations through the mixed layer and well into the overlying stable layer. The dimensionless dissipation rates of turbulent kinetic energy, temperature and humidity variances, and temperature-humidity covariance (ψ, ψθ, ψ qand ψ θq) were computed and their height variations analysed. The behaviour of the dissipation rate ψ was found to differ significantly from those observed for the other rates. In the lowest region of the mixed layer, ψ does not obey the local free convection prediction. Instead, it follows practically a relationship similar to the one established in the surface layer by Wyngaard et al. (1971). The dissipation rate ψ remains fairly constant in the bulk of the mixed layer (0.3 ≤ z/Z i≤ 0.8) and shows a very rapid decrease above the inversion. These results confirm those reported previously from the Minnesota and Ashchurch data by Kaimal et al. (1976), Caughey and Palmer (1979), etc. The height variations for the other dissipation rates were found to obey, as expected, the (z/Z i)-4/3 decrease predicted under the local free convection similarity hypothesis in the lowest region of the mixed layer. This region extends to the height z/Z i- 0.4, 0.1, and 0.3, respectively, for ψθ, ψq, and ψθq. Above these levels, the dissipation rates ψθ and ψq show, on average, a slight increase to reach peak-values near the mixed-layer top, while the ‘dissipation’ rate ψ θqchanges sign from positive to negative around the height z/Z i, - 0.7. These characteristics confirm the fact that the structures of temperature and humidity fluctuations are considerably affected by their entrainment-induced fluctuations. Therefore, an attempt has been made to non-dimensionalize the dissipation rates near the mixed-layer top with the interfacial scaling factors. 相似文献
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Experimental results in the atmospheric surface layer indicate that the viscous heating term in the equation for the mean-square value of the turbulent temperature fluctuation is small, but the correlation between temperature and turbulent energy dissipation fluctuations is significant. 相似文献
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Cloud microphysical processes occur at the smallest end of scales among cloud-related processes and thus must be parameterized not only in large-scale global circulation models(GCMs) but also in various higher-resolution limited-area models such as cloud-resolving models(CRMs) and large-eddy simulation(LES) models. Instead of giving a comprehensive review of existing microphysical parameterizations that have been developed over the years, this study concentrates purposely on several topics that ... 相似文献
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Albert F. Kurbatskiy Lyudmila I. Kurbatskaya 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2009,104(1-2):63-81
A modified three-parameter model of turbulence for a thermally stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is presented. The model is based on tensor-invariant parameterizations for the pressure–strain and pressure–temperature correlations that are more complete than the parameterizations used in the Mellor–Yamada model of level 3.0. The turbulent momentum and heat fluxes are calculated with explicit algebraic models obtained with the aid of symbol algebra from the transport equations for momentum and heat fluxes in the approximation of weakly equilibrium turbulence. The turbulent transport of heat and momentum fluxes is assumed to be negligibly small in this approximation. The three-parameter $E - \varepsilon - {\left\langle {\theta ^{2} } \right\rangle }$ model of thermally stratified turbulence is employed to obtain closed-form algebraic expressions for the fluxes. A computational test of a 24-h ABL evolution is implemented for an idealized two-dimensional region. Comparison of the computed results with the available observational data and other numerical models shows that the proposed model is able to reproduce both the most important structural features of the turbulence in an urban canopy layer near the urbanized ABL surface and the effect of urban roughness on a global structure of the fields of wind and temperature over a city. The results of the computational test for the new model indicate that the motion of air in the urban canopy layer is strongly influenced by mechanical factors (buildings) and thermal stratification. 相似文献