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Igor Petenko Giangiuseppe Mastrantonio Angelo Viola Stefania Argentini Ilaria Pietroni 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,143(1):125-141
Some characteristics of wavelike motions in the atmospheric boundary layer observed by sodar are considered. In an experiment
carried out in February 1993 in Milan, Italy, Doppler sodar measurements were accompanied by in situ measurements of temperature
and wind velocity vertical profiles using a tethered balloon up to 600 m. The oscillations of elevated wavy layers containing
intense thermal turbulence, usually associated with temperature-inversion zones, were studied by using correlation and spectral
analysis methods. The statistics of the occurrence of wavelike and temperature-inversion events are presented. The height
distributions of Brunt–Vaisala frequency and wind shear and their correlation within elevated inversion layers were determined,
with a strong correlation observed between the drift rate of the wavy layers and the vertical velocity measured by Doppler
sodar inside these layers. Spectral analysis showed similarities regarding their frequency characteristics. The phase speed
and propagation direction of waves were estimated from the time delay of the signals at three antennae to provide estimates
of wavelength. Moreover, wavelengths were estimated from the intrinsic frequency obtained from sodar measurements of the Doppler
vertical velocity and oscillations of wavy turbulent layers. The two wavelength estimates are in good agreement. 相似文献
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M. P. Rao Paolo Castracane Stefano Casadio Daniele Fuá Giorgio Fiocco 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2004,111(1):85-108
The simultaneous operation of a three-axis Doppler sodar system in the centralurban area of Rome and two similar systems in the suburban area, forming atriangle about 20 km on each side, provided evidence of solitary-type wavesin the urban boundary layer. Three events, each lasting from a few minutes toabout 30 min, and ranging in depth from the minimum range of the sodar (39 m) to over 500 m, are reported here. Two events were recognizable onall three sodar records while the third event could be observed at the urbanlocation only. Time-height acoustic echo intensity records showed no-echoregions within the wave indicating transport of trapped recirculating air.This is typical of large amplitude solitary waves. The time series plots ofsodar-derived vertical wind velocity revealed a maximum peak-to-peakvariation of about 5 m s-1 during periods of wave-associated disturbance.The vertical velocity is found to increase with height up to the top of the closedcirculation within the wave and decreases further above. The normalisedamplitude-wavelength relationship for the two events indicates that theobserved waves are close to a strongly nonlinear regime. 相似文献
3.
L&#; Naiping Li Shiming Chen Yanjuan Chen Jingnan Zheng Yueming 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》1987,1(1):96-104
In this paper,a comparison is made of the Doppler sodar wind measurement with the in-situ measurements on a 325 m meteorological tower.The results show that when the ratio of signal to noise is larger than 1,the mean wind speeds and directions obtained from the two techniques are well correlated,thus their profiles are close to each other.The mean value and root mean square of vertical velocity measured by the Doppler sodar are a little larger than those measured by a sonic anemometer at a height of 85 m,which is in agreement with the analysis by Gaynor et al.(1983).We notice that there are some differences in the observational results between the Doppler sodar and insitu measurements,especially when comparing the values measured at each time.Therefore,it is important to analyze the reason for the differences and to make corrections to the Doppler sodar measurements. 相似文献
4.
Stefan Emeis Klaus Sch?fer Christoph Münkel Roman Friedl Peter Suppan 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,143(1):25-35
Since 2006 different remote monitoring methods for determining mixing-layer height have been operated in parallel in Augsburg
(Germany). One method is based on the operation of eye-safe commercial mini-lidar systems (ceilometers). The optical backscatter
intensities recorded with ceilometers provide information about the range-dependent aerosol concentration; gradient minima
within this profile mark the tops of mixed layers. Special software for these ceilometers provides routine retrievals of lower
atmospheric layering. A second method, based on sodar observations, detects the height of a turbulent layer characterized
by high acoustic backscatter intensities due to thermal fluctuations and a high variance of the vertical velocity component.
This information is extended by measurements with a radio-acoustic sounding system (RASS) that directly provides the vertical
temperature profile from the detection of acoustic signal propagation and thus temperature inversions that mark atmospheric
layers. Ceilometer backscatter information is evaluated by comparison with parallel measurements. Data are presented from
2 years of combined ceilometer and RASS measurements at the same site and from comparison with a nearby (60 km) radiosonde
for larger-scale humidity information. This evaluation is designed to ensure mixing-layer height monitoring from ceilometer
data more reliable. 相似文献
5.
Case Studies of the Wintertime Convective Boundary-Layer Structure in the Urban Area of Milan, Italy
The paper describes some aspects of the convective boundary-layer structure based on simultaneous sodar and tethersonde measurements during a field experiment in the urban area of Milan in the period 8 to 20 February, 1993. During this period, fog episodes and strong low-level elevated inversions (with lower boundaries < 400 m) were observed most of the time. A close agreement in the mixing height values, derived from the sodar and tethersonde profiles, has been achieved under these conditions. The validity of the similarity relationships, which have been originally derived to describe the vertical velocity variance and heat flux profiles over horizontally homogeneous terrain under quasi-stationary conditions, was evaluated when applied to the urban boundary layer. 相似文献
6.
Summary Within the Mesoscale Alpine Programme MAP conducted in autumn 1999, the vertical structure and the temporal evolution of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) in the Rhine Valley 2km south of Lake Constance were observed with a Remtech PA2 sodar (sound-detection-and-ranging instrument) rendering half-hour averages of the three-dimensional wind profile within the lowest kilometre above ground. During Foehn events, tethered balloon soundings and wind profiler measurements were conducted in addition to the rawinsonde network which was built up for the MAP field campaign.The remote sensing instrument renders a surprisingly high number of valid data during south Foehn. Due to the frequent formation of a cold air pool with stable conditions below the Foehn flow with near-neutral static stability, even more sodar data is valid during Foehn periods than during no Foehn periods. A significant reduction of the sodar data quality is only observed during Foehn events with grounding of the Foehn at the sodar site due to high background noise. At higher levels, a Foehn signal can be detected from the sodar wind and turbulence intensitiy information. With Foehn, higher wind speeds and larger turbulence intensities occur than without Foehn. Comparisons to rawinsonde and tethersonde soundings and wind profiler measurements at sites nearby reveal the spatial inhomogeneity of the Foehn flow within this part of the valley as well as instrumental short-comings. Different methods to determine the mixing height using the vertical sounding devices lead to some uncertainty of mixing height estimates which however can reasonably be explained. 相似文献
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F. T. M. Nieuwstadt 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1983,26(4):377-390
The stationary, Ekman-layer equations have been solved in closed form for two expressions of the eddy viscosity as a function of height, z: v τ=cu*z(1?z/h)and v τ=cu*z(1?z/h) 2, where u* is the friction velocity, h the boundary-layer height and c a constant. The main difference between both solutions is that the quadratic K-profile leads to a velocity discontinuity at the top of the boundary layer, while the solution for the cubic profile approaches the geostrophic wind at z=h smoothly. We discuss the characteristics of the solutions in terms of a dimensionless parameter C=fh/cu*, where f is the Coriolis parameter. The dependence on C can be interpreted in terms of a varying boundary-layer height or in terms of stability. The results for C ~ 1 are related to a neutral boundary layer. They agree well with results of a second-order model. The limit C → 0 is investigated in detail. We find that the stress profile becomes linear. The velocity profile shows different characteristics depending on whether we consider a shallow or a very unstable boundary layer. The results agree with observations. Finally we consider the influence of baroclinicity on the wind and stress profiles. 相似文献
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This is the first of two papers reporting the results of a study of the turbulence regimes and exchange processes within and above an extensive Douglas-fir stand. The experiment was conducted on Vancouver Island during a two-week rainless period in July and August 1990. The experimental site was located on a 5o slope. The stand, which was planted in 1962, and thinned and pruned uniformly in 1988, had a (projected) leaf area index of 5.4 and a heighth=16.7 m. Two eddy correlation units were operated in the daytime to measure the fluctuations in the three velocity components, air temperature and water vapour density, with one mounted permanently at a height of 23.0m (z/h=1.38) and the other at various heights in the stand with two to three 8-hour periods of measurement at each level. Humidity and radiation regimes both above and beneath the overstory and profiles of wind speed and air temperature were also measured. The most important findings are:
- A marked secondary maximum in the wind speed profile occurred in the middle of the trunk space (aroundz/h=0.12). The turbulence intensities for the longitudinal and lateral velocity components increased with decreasing height, but the intensity for the vertical velocity component had a maximum atz/h=0.60 (middle of the canopy layer). Magnitudes of the higher order moments (skewness and kurtosis) for the three velocity components were higher in the canopy layer than in the trunk space and above the stand.
- There was a 20% reduction in Reynolds stress fromz/h=1.00 to 1.38. Negative Reynolds stress or upward momentum flux perisistently occurred atz/h=0.12 and 0.42 (base of the canopy), and was correlated with negative wind speed gradients at the two heights. The longitudinal pressure gradient due to the land-sea/upslope-downslope circulations was believed to be the main factor responsible for the negative Reynolds stress.
- Momentum transfer was highly intermittent. Sweep and ejection events dominated the transfer atz/h=0.60, 1.00 and 1.38, with sweeps playing the more important role of the two atz/h=0.60 and 1.00 and the less important role atz/h=1.38. But interaction events were of greater magnitude than sweep and ejection events atz/h=0.12 and 0.42.
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Vertical coherence and phase delay between wind components in strong winds in the lowest 20 m over uniform terrain in New Zealand have been analysed. The vertical decay constants and slopes for the horizontal wind components could be described as linear functions of the ratio of vertical spacing to mean height (δz/z), with relatively little scatter. The decay constants for the lateral were smaller than for the longitudinal components, the slopes larger for the lateral components, as found previously. The coherence of vertical velocity is best described by exponential decay functions multiplied by a parameter which decreases linearly from 1 (for δz/z=0) to 0.5 (for δz/z=1). The decay constants increased linearly with δz/z, as in the case of the horizontal components. There were no significant phase differences for the vertical components. Lateral and vertical decay constants for the longitudinal wind component could be fitted to identical functions of δy/z and δz/z, respectively. 相似文献
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J. Keder 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》1999,71(1-2):133-138
Summary A REMTECH PA2 Doppler Sodar is operated regularly at the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) observatory in Prague,
collocated with a routine rawinsonde sounding system. The Air Pollution Control Division of CHMI utilises the sodar data in
air pollution studies and as an information support for the smog warning system operated in Prague. Besides of the basic software
for echo strength and wind profile evaluation, optional routines for deriving parameters such as inversion and mixing height,
stability class etc. were delivered by the sodar manufacturer. Based on a sufficiently large data set (more than one year)
of synchronous sodar and rawinsonde measurements, an analysis and comparison of inversion and mixing heights provided by both
sounding systems have been accomplished in order to evaluate the correctness and accuracy of sodar estimates of these parameters.
In contrast to the wind speed and wind direction data, for which a satisfactory agreement with other kind of measurements
has been reported by many studies, the results for inversion and mixing height detection were totally disappointing. A direct
applicability of inversion height and mixing height data provided by the REMTECH’s automatic routines in air pollution studies
or smog warning systems is quite problematical with the present “state of the art”.
Received November 3, 1998 Revised April 20, 1999 相似文献
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Potential temperature, specific humidity and wind profiles measured by radiosondes under unstable but windy conditions during FIFE in northeastern Kansas were analyzed within the framework of Monin-Obukhov similarity. Around 86% of these profiles were found to have a height range over which the similarity, formulated in terms of the Businger-Dyer functions, is valid and for which the resulting surface fluxes are in good agreement with independent measurements at ground stations. When scaled with the surface roughness z
0
= 1.05 m and the displacement height d
0
= 26.9 m, for the potential temperature this height range was 45 (±31) (z – d
0
)/z
0
104 (±54) and the comparison of the profile-derived surface fluxes with the independent measurements gave a correlation coefficient of r = 0.96. For the specific humidity these values are 42 (±29) (z – d
0
)/z
0
96 (±38) and r = 0.94. In terms of the height of the bottom of the inversion H
i
, in the morning hours the upper limit of (z – d
0
) in the Monin-Obukhov layer is approximately 0.3H
i
, whereas for a fully developed ABL it is closer to 0.1H
i
. Probably, as a result of the short sampling times and perhaps also of the small gradients under the windy conditions, the exact height range of validity was difficult to establish from a mere inspection of these profiles. 相似文献
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R. D. Kouznetsov V. F. Kramar F. Beyrich D. Engelbart 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2004,85(1-3):93-99
Summary A simple parameterization for the estimation of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and momentum flux profiles under near-neutral stratification based on sodar measurements of the vertical velocity variance has been tested using data from the LINEX-2000 experiment. Measurements included operation of a phased-array Doppler sodar DSDPA.90 and of a sonic anemometer USA-1 mounted at a meteorological tower at a height of 90m. Good agreement has been found between the TKE and momentum flux values derived from the sonic and sodar data (with correlation coefficients r>0.90 and a slope of the regression lines of about 1.01.1) suggesting the possible use of sodar measurements of w 2 to derive turbulence parameter profiles above the tower range. 相似文献
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P. Martano D. Cava G. Mastrantonio S. Argentini A. Viola 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2005,115(1):85-103
Nocturnal convection, originating in a well-mixed marine cloud-topped boundary layer, advected onshore, was observed using a Doppler sodar on the Tyrrhenian coast in Italy. The horizontal and vertical dimensions of the downdrafts were evaluated. The oscillation frequency triggered by the downdrafts at the inversion layer, derived from the harmonic analysis of the sodar measured vertical velocity (w), is compared with the Brunt-Vaisala frequency, obtained from the rawinsonde temperature profile. A similarity function for the 2w vertical profile was used to fit the sodar experimental data and to retrieve the depth of the mixing layer and the sensible heat flux at the top of the cloud layer. The results are in agreement with the convection layer depth observed in the sodar echoes facsimile record, and with the energy budget evaluated at the top of the cloud layer using the rawinsonde profiles. 相似文献
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Frank Beyrich 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1995,74(1-2):1-18
Sodar has been used for about 20 years to determine mixing height. However, estimation of the height of a convective boundary layer (CBL) that exceeds the sodar-probing range is still an unsolved question. As one possible way, it is suggested that one adapt a simple mixed-layer model to sodar observations during the morning growth period of the CBL, when its top can be clearly detected. Results are compared with other methods for CBL-height estimation from sodar data that have been proposed in the literature. Finally, some prognostic aspects are discussed. 相似文献
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Vertical velocity field in the convective boundary layer as observed with an acoustic Doppler sodar 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The morning development of the daytime convective boundary layer (CBL) during fine weather has been observed with an acoustic Doppler sodar of the C.R.P.E. In particular, the vertical profile of the vertical velocity third-order statistic W*
3 has been obtained. This quantity is a maximum near 0.3z
I where z
I, is the height of the CBL. The histogram of vertical velocity in the CBL shows a relationship between W
3 and the convective velocity W
* and is useful for convective plume determination. 相似文献
16.
The question of estimating the height of the stable boundary layer (SBL) based on digitalized vertical profiles of sodar signal intensity has been re-examined. A simple one-dimensional numerical boundary-layer model is used to compute vertical profiles of the temperature structure parameterC
T
2
. It is shown that especially at the beginning of the night (when stratification is weak) one can not expect any significant profile structure in the upper part of the SBL if its depth is determined in terms of common turbulent height scales. From this it is concluded that the SBL-height will be underestimated early in the night when derived from the maximum gradient in the signal intensity profiles. Later in the night in contrast, the computations often show elevated maxima or even zones with reduced, and above them enhanced, vertical gradients ofC
T
2
, from which a SBL-height can be deduced that compares well with other common height scales. The computed profiles ofC
T
2
are shown to be in qualitative agreement with observed profiles of sodar signal intensity for several analysed cases from the HAPEX-MOBILHY experiment.Comparing different SBL-depth scales with sodar observations, it is demonstrated that most of them are often closely related to a sodar-derived SBL-height only during certain phases of the night. Thus the sodar-SBL-height can, after a transition period, be perhaps associated with the lower turbulent layer of the growing surface inversion during the first part and with the height of the low-level wind maximum during the second part of the night. 相似文献
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Acoustic sounder measurements of the stable boundary-layer height taken during the EPRI Plume Model Validation and Development
Project experiment are examined. Comparison of simultaneous measurements by two sodars located 15 km apart shows good agreement.
Several widely used diagnostic formulas for estimation of the boundary-layer height, based on wind speed and surface-layer
parameters, such as friction velocity and Monin-Obukhov length, are tested against the sodar data. Of these, best performance
is found using a simple linear relationship with friction velocity or, alternatively, wind speed at 10 m height. No evidence
is found to support the more often used Zilitinkevich (1972) formula. Tests using selected data from the Cabauw site in the
Netherlands confirm the results found on the basis of EPRI data. 相似文献
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This paper deals with the derivation of the convective mixing height and the characteristic convective velocity w
* from profiles of
w
measured by sodar. The parameters were obtained by fitting an analytical profile to the observed data. Results were compared with values obtained by the meteorological preprocessor of a dispersion model and from noon radiosoundings. In addition, a Monte Carlo method was applied to study the influence of measurement errors. It turned out that it is inherently difficult to determine the depth of deep mixed layers from sodar measurements with a limited range, although the determination of w
* should be possible. However, a significant underestimation of
w
, and thus w
*, was found, which is probably due to disproportional sampling of updrafts and downdrafts. 相似文献
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A statistical model, based on a method of Vulf'son, is used to examine some of the plume-like temperature structures formed in the unstable boundary layer. The model assumes that the plume diameter changes slowly with height so that a cylindrical approximation may be made. Measurements of the vertical velocity and temperature were used to determine the temperature dependent portion of the vertical velocity field. Temperature data were collected from sensors on a tower and from aircraft; velocity data were collected only from the tower.Using this model for analysis of the data indicates that: (1) the average isotherm diameter and the population of isotherms are a function ofz/L; (2) the distribution of core temperatures is approximately a uniform distribution.Independent of the model, a convective velocity was determined and found to have approximately the same profile as the temperature; from this the average velocity of the plumes was found to be a linear function ofz/L, fromz/L - 0.1 toz/L - 1.0. As a consequence of this functional dependence, the entrainment into the plumes is approximately constant over this range. The cumulative temperature distribution function was found to be an asymmetric function ofz/L. A simple relation which is independent ofu
* is given to determine the heat flux.Contribution No. 269 Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington. 相似文献
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This paper reviews the remote sensing of waves and turbulence in statically stable atmospheric layers, utilizing sodar and microwave radar echoes from the small-scale inhomogeneities in gaseous refractive index caused by localized fluctuations in temperature, humidity, and velocity. Scattering theory and sounding methodology are reviewed briefly, and the relative performance of typical radar and sodar systems compared. The main section of the paper takes the form of a summary and discussion of experimental progress since 1969, showing how the echo patterns obtained may be applied to the interpretation of multiple layering, gravity waves, internal fronts and the details of dynamic instability and the genesis of turbulence in stably stratified shear layers. In addition, methods for the measurement of the intensity of the small-scale ( /2) variability of wind, temperature and water vapor from the observed radar or sodar echo intensities, and the use of Doppler techniques for the measurement of mean velocity and turbulence are discussed.SODAR from SOund Detection And Ranging in analogy to RAdio Detection And Ranging. 相似文献