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Despite the long interest in understanding fog processes and improving fog parametrization, numerical modelling of fog remains
an important challenge in short-term forecasts, due to the diversity and scales of the mechanisms involved with fog parametrization.
In this study, we focus on the key processes that govern performance in fog modelling in very stable conditions. Large-eddy
simulations at very high resolution are tested against the observations from Cardington, UK, presented in Part I of this study.
The radiation fog forms in statically stable conditions. Five hours after its formation, the fog deepens rapidly and a significant
cooling associated with the formation of positive curvature can be seen in the vertical profiles of potential temperature
around 50 m. After roughly 8 h of development, a mixed layer has formed at the base of the fog, driven by surface instability.
We show that the model captures well the change in static stability, but fails at capturing correctly the mechanisms associated
with the deepening of the fog layer. Different possible mechanisms are discussed and tested with the model, such as additional
drainage flow and cold air advection, which might result from local heterogeneity. The sensitivity of these results to different
microphysical parametrizations is also briefly addressed. 相似文献
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Measurements and Modelling of the Wind Speed Profile in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
We present measurements from 2006 of the marine wind speed profile at a site located 18 km from the west coast of Denmark
in the North Sea. Measurements from mast-mounted cup anemometers up to a height of 45 m are extended to 161 m using LiDAR
observations. Atmospheric turbulent flux measurements performed in 2004 with a sonic anemometer are compared to a bulk Richardson
number formulation of the atmospheric stability. This is used to classify the LiDAR/cup wind speed profiles into atmospheric
stability classes. The observations are compared to a simplified model for the wind speed profile that accounts for the effect
of the boundary-layer height. For unstable and neutral atmospheric conditions the boundary-layer height could be neglected,
whereas for stable conditions it is comparable to the measuring heights and therefore essential to include. It is interesting
to note that, although it is derived from a different physical approach, the simplified wind speed profile conforms to the
traditional expressions of the surface layer when the effect of the boundary-layer height is neglected. 相似文献
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Analysis of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height Characteristics over the Arctic Ocean Using the Aircraft and GPS Soundings 
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下载免费PDF全文 Utilizing aircraft sounding data collected from the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA, 1998) campaign, the authors evaluated commonly-used profile methods for Arctic ABL height estimation by validating against the’true’ABL height from aircraft sounding profiles, where ABL height is defined as the top of the layer with significant turbulence. Furthermore, the best performing method was used to estimate ABL height from the one-year GPS soundings obtained during SHEBA (October 1997-October 1998). It was found that the temperature gradient method produces a reliable estimate of ABL height. Additionally, the authors determined optimal threshold values of temperature gradient for stable boundary layer (SBL) and convective boundary layer (CBL) to be 6.5 K/100 m and 1.0 K/100 m, respectively. The maximum ABL height during the year was 1150 m occurred in May. Median values of Arctic ABL height in May, June, July, and August were 400 m, 430 m, 180 m, and 320 m, respectively. Arctic ABL heights are clearly higher in the spring than in the summer. 相似文献
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Gaëlle F. Gilson Hester Jiskoot John J. Cassano Ismail Gultepe Timothy D. James 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2018,168(3):443-467
An automated method to classify Arctic fog into distinct thermodynamic profiles using historic in-situ surface and upper-air observations is presented. This classification is applied to low-resolution Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) soundings and high-resolution Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS) soundings in low- and high-Arctic coastal and pack-ice environments. Results allow investigation of fog macrophysical properties and processes in coastal East Greenland during melt seasons 1980–2012. Integrated with fog observations from three synoptic weather stations, 422 IGRA soundings are classified into six fog thermodynamic types based on surface saturation ratio, type of temperature inversion, fog-top height relative to inversion-base height and stability using the virtual potential temperature gradient. Between 65–80% of fog observations occur with a low-level inversion, and statically neutral or unstable surface layers occur frequently. Thermodynamic classification is sensitive to the assigned dew-point depression threshold, but categorization is robust. Despite differences in the vertical resolution of radiosonde observations, IGRA and ASCOS soundings yield the same six fog classes, with fog-class distribution varying with latitude and environmental conditions. High-Arctic fog frequently resides within an elevated inversion layer, whereas low-Arctic fog is more often restricted to the mixed layer. Using supplementary time-lapse images, ASCOS microwave radiometer retrievals and airmass back-trajectories, we hypothesize that the thermodynamic classes represent different stages of advection fog formation, development, and dissipation, including stratus-base lowering and fog lifting. This automated extraction of thermodynamic boundary-layer and inversion structure can be applied to radiosonde observations worldwide to better evaluate fog conditions that affect transportation and lead to improvements in numerical models. 相似文献
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Modelling surface turbulent fluxes in stable conditions 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
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Accurately representing complex land-surface processes balancing complexity and realism remains one challenge that the weather
modelling community is facing nowadays. In this study, a photosynthesis-based Gas-exchange Evapotranspiration Model (GEM)
is integrated into the Noah land-surface model replacing the traditional Jarvis scheme for estimating the canopy resistance
and transpiration. Using 18-month simulations from the High Resolution Land Data Assimilation System (HRLDAS), the impact
of the photosynthesis-based approach on the simulated canopy resistance, surface heat fluxes, soil moisture, and soil temperature
over different vegetation types is evaluated using data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) site, Oklahoma Mesonet,
2002 International H2O Project (IHOP_2002), and three Ameriflux sites. Incorporation of GEM into Noah improves the surface energy fluxes as well
as the associated diurnal cycle of soil moisture and soil temperature during both wet and dry periods. An analysis of midday,
average canopy resistance shows similar day-to-day trends in the model fields as seen in observed patterns. Bias and standard
deviation analyses for soil temperature and surface fluxes show that GEM responds somewhat better than the Jarvis scheme,
mainly because the Jarvis approach relies on a parametrised minimum canopy resistance and meteorological variables such as
air temperature and incident radiation. The analyses suggest that adding a photosynthesis-based transpiration scheme such
as GEM improves the ability of the land-data assimilation system to simulate evaporation and transpiration under a range of
soil and vegetation conditions. 相似文献
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The Arctic freshwater cycle plays an important role in regulating regional and global climate. Current observations suggest that an intensification of the high-northern latitude hydrological cycle has caused a freshening of the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas, increasing the potential of weakening overturning strength in the Nordic seas, and reducing temperatures. It is not known if this freshening is a manifestation of the current anthropogenic warming and if the Arctic freshwater cycle has exhibited similar changes in the past, in particular as a response to naturally induced periods of warming, for example during the mid-Holocene hypsithermal. Thus, we have used an earth model of intermediate complexity, LOVECLIM, to investigate the response of the Arctic freshwater cycle, during two warm periods that evolved under different sets of forcings, the mid-Holocene and the twenty-first century. A combination of proxy reconstructions and modelling studies have shown these two periods to exhibit similar surface temperature anomalies, compared to the pre-industrial period, however, it has yet to be determined if the Arctic freshwater cycle and thus, the transport and redistribution of freshwater to the Arctic and the sub-Arctic seas, during these two warm periods, is comparable. Here we provide an overview that shows that the response of the Arctic freshwater cycle during the first half of the twenty-first century can be interpreted as an ‘extreme’ mid-Holocene hydrological cycle. Whilst for the remainder of the twenty-first century, the Arctic freshwater cycle and the majority of its components will likely transition into what can only be described as truly anthropogenic in nature. 相似文献
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Fifty flask air samples were taken during April 1986 from a NOAA WP-3D Orion aircraft which flew missions across a broad region of the Arctic as part of the second Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program (AGASP II). The samples were subsequently analyzed for both carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). The samples were taken in well-defined layers of Arctic haze, in the background troposphere where no haze was detected, and from near the surface to the lower stratosphere. Vertical profiles were specifically measured in the vicinity of Barrow, Alaska to enable comparisons with routine surface measurements made at the NOAA/GMCC observatory. Elevated levels of both methane and carbon dioxide were found in haze layers. For samples taken in the background troposphere we found negative vertical gradients (lower concentrations aloft) for both gases. For the entire data set (including samples collected in the haze layers) we found a strong positive correlation between the methane and carbon dioxide concentrations, with a linear regression slope of 17.5 ppb CH4/ppm CO2, a standard error of 0.6, and a correlation coefficient (r2) of 0.95. This correlation between the two gases seen in the aircraft samples was corroborated by in situ surface measurements of these gases made at the Barrow observatory during March and April 1986. We also find a similar relationship between methane and carbon dioxide measured concurrenty for a short period in the moderately polluted urban atmosphere of Boulder, Colorado. We suggest that the strong correlation between methane and carbon dioxide concentrations reflects a common source region for both, with subsequent long-range transport of the polluted air to the Arctic. 相似文献
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Recent climate warming in the Arctic requires improvements in permafrost and carbon cycle monitoring, accomplished here by setting up long-term observation sites with high-quality in situ measurements of turbulent atmospheric energy fluxes applying the eddy covariance method and/or laser scintillometry in Arctic landscapes. Accurate quantification and well-adapted parameterizations of turbulent energy fluxes, e.g., during neutral to stable stratified conditions, are a fundamental problem in soil?Csnow?Cice?Cvegetation?Catmosphere interaction studies. We present results from the Arctic Turbulence Experiment (ARCTEX-2006) performed on the island of Svalbard, Norway, during the winter/spring transition 2006 that focus on data correction and quality assessment, on synoptic weather conditions, as well as site-specific micrometeorological features. A quality assessment and data correction adapted to the environmental conditions of polar regions demonstrates that specific measurement errors common at a high Arctic landscape could be minimized. We discuss the role of the intermittency of the turbulent atmospheric fluctuation of momentum and scalars, the existence of a disturbed vertical temperature profile (sharp inversion layer) close to the surface, and the relevance of possible free convection events for the snow or ice melt in the Arctic spring at Svalbard. Recommendations and improvements regarding the interpretation of eddy flux data as well as the arrangement of the instrumentation under polar distinct exchange conditions and (extreme) weather situations are presented. 相似文献
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《大气与海洋》2013,51(4):273-289
Abstract Gridded fields of potential temperature and salinity, interpolated to the time of minimal ice coverage, are constructed for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago based on archived data. In order to overcome the large variations in the horizontal coverage of the observations, the gridding is performed in an iterative procedure where the horizontal correlation scales depend on the data coverage as well as on the flow field. The mean flow corresponding to the temperature and salinity fields are calculated with a diagnostic numerical ocean model. The simulations show that the relative flow through the different straits depends on the elevation difference from the Arctic Ocean to Baffin Bay, and on the density distribution and baroclinic pressure gradients. A 5‐cm increase in the Arctic‐Baffin elevation difference can double the transport. Mean values of the summer flow are a total transport of 0.9 Sv, with 34% flowing through Barrow Strait, 20% through Jones Sound, and 46% through Nares Strait. 相似文献
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The second Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program (AGASP-II) was conducted across the non-Soviet Arctic in March and April 1986, to study the aerosol, gaseous, chemical, and optical properties of Arctic haze. One component of the program was supported with an instrumented NOAA WP-3D atmospheric research aircraft. Measurements of wind, temperature, ozone, water vapor, condensation nucleus concentration, and aerosol scattering extinction coefficient were used to determine the locations and properties of haze layers. The first three NOAA WP-3D research flights were conducted north of Barrow, Alaska, and over the Beaufort Sea northeast of Barter Island, Alaska. The next three sampled conditions in the high Arctic near Alert, Northwest Territories, Canada. All basic meteorological, gas, and aerosol systems are described. The WP-3D flight tracks and operations are presented. 相似文献
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Martin Piringer Sylvain Joffre Alexander Baklanov Andreas Christen Marco Deserti Koen De Ridder Stefan Emeis Patrice Mestayer Maria Tombrou Douglas Middleton Kathrin Baumann-Stanzer Aggeliki Dandou Ari Karppinen Jerzy Burzynski 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2007,124(1):3-24
The specific problems of determining and simulating the surface energy balance (SEB) and the mixing height (MH) over urban
areas are examined. The SEB and MH are critical components of algorithms and numerical models for the urban boundary layer,
though the constituent parts of the SEB and the MH are not routinely measured by national weather services. Parameterisations
are thus needed in applications. In this investigation, several recently developed algorithms and models for estimating the
SEB and MH were applied to new datasets and assessed. Results are discussed in terms of the need for spatial resolution and
the parameters needed to describe the urban atmosphere. Limitations of models are identified and recommendations for further
development and observations are given. Having identified gaps in knowledge, key findings from new urban experiments and numerical
modelling for the SEB and MH are given. The diurnal cycle for the SEB is significantly different from rural conditions—urban
heat storage is needed in urban parameterisations. The urban MH is increased over the rural MH, as shown by several numerical
schemes and careful sodar analyses. This work has been carried out within the COST-715 Action “Meteorology applied to urban
air pollution problems (1998–2004). COST 715 reached a consensus proposing representatively sited measurements of meteorological
parameters and turbulent fluxes above roof-tops, and recognised that such data are needed to improve numerical models of the
urban surface processes. 相似文献
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We study bulk formulations for the boundary-layer height which are currently in use for atmospheric modelling. The formulations
are based on various forms of the Richardson number, and these are evaluated with Cabauw field data in stable conditions.
Results for both a large-eddy simulation model and anE-ε turbulence closure model for neutral boundary layers are also utilised. An updated formulation is introduced, which combines
the effects of shear in the outer region of the boundary layer with surface friction. The updated formulation has a better
performance for neutral boundary layers with upper level stratification. The findings are illustrated with a single-column
model for a case with relatively high winds over the tropical ocean including shallow cumulus convection, and for a case with
fair weather over land. We also show that for stable conditions, the updated formulation performs better than estimates on
the basis of surface friction alone. 相似文献
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An evaluation of Arctic cloud and radiation processes during the SHEBA year: simulation results from eight Arctic regional climate models 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
K. Wyser C. G. Jones P. Du E. Girard U. Willén J. Cassano J. H. Christensen J. A. Curry K. Dethloff J.-E. Haugen D. Jacob M. Køltzow R. Laprise A. Lynch S. Pfeifer A. Rinke M. Serreze M. J. Shaw M. Tjernström M. Zagar 《Climate Dynamics》2008,30(2-3):203-223
Eight atmospheric regional climate models (RCMs) were run for the period September 1997 to October 1998 over the western Arctic
Ocean. This period was coincident with the observational campaign of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project.
The RCMs shared common domains, centred on the SHEBA observation camp, along with a common model horizontal resolution, but
differed in their vertical structure and physical parameterizations. All RCMs used the same lateral and surface boundary conditions.
Surface downwelling solar and terrestrial radiation, surface albedo, vertically integrated water vapour, liquid water path
and cloud cover from each model are evaluated against the SHEBA observation data. Downwelling surface radiation, vertically
integrated water vapour and liquid water path are reasonably well simulated at monthly and daily timescales in the model ensemble
mean, but with considerable differences among individual models. Simulated surface albedos are relatively accurate in the
winter season, but become increasingly inaccurate and variable in the melt season, thereby compromising the net surface radiation
budget. Simulated cloud cover is more or less uncorrelated with observed values at the daily timescale. Even for monthly averages,
many models do not reproduce the annual cycle correctly. The inter-model spread of simulated cloud-cover is very large, with
no model appearing systematically superior. Analysis of the co-variability of terms controlling the surface radiation budget
reveal some of the key processes requiring improved treatment in Arctic RCMs. Improvements in the parameterization of cloud
amounts and surface albedo are most urgently needed to improve the overall performance of RCMs in the Arctic. 相似文献
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Numerical model simulations of sea-breeze circulations under idealized conditions are subjected to dimensional analyses in
order to resolve sea-breeze dynamical relations and unify previous results based on observations. The analysis is motivated
by the fact that sea-breeze depth scaling and volume flux scaling are only partially understood. The analysis is based on
nonlinear numerical modelling simulations in combination with recent observational scaling analyses. The analysis confirms
scaling laws for sea-breeze strength dependence on governing variables and shows how the sea-breeze speed scale is controlled
by surface heat flux. It also shows that the sea-breeze depth scale is controlled by stability. By combining sea-breeze speed
and depth scales, the sea-breeze volume flux scale is determined by an equilibrium between the accumulated convergence of
heat over land since sunrise and stable air advection from the sea surface. 相似文献
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The concept of a cold air ‘Parcel’ is introduced for describing the bulk properties of drainage flow. By means of a model
based on the momentum and sensible heat transports under calm conditions, the thickness h and velocity u of the Parcel are derived in simple forms. It is shown that h and u correspond to the inversion height and maximum velocity of actual drainage flow. The governing parameters for h and u are the length and vertical drop of the slope, potential temperature difference between the ambient atmosphere and the Parcel,
aerodynamic condition of the slope surface expressed by the mean bulk coefficients, and ambient stability. The mean bulk coefficients
depend on the roughness lengths for the velocity and potential temperature profiles and are decreasing functions of the slope
length.
The Parcel Model agrees qualitatively with Manins and Sawford's (1979) model under neutral ambient stratification. But agreement
is not so good under stable conditions. The thickness and velocity of drainage flow predicted by the Parcel Model agree with
observations on slopes several tens of meters to several hundred kilometers long. 相似文献
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William Perrie Zhenxia Long Hayley Hung Amanda Cole Alexandra Steffen Ashu Dastoor Dorothy Durnford Jianmin Ma Jan W. Bottenheim Stoyka Netcheva Ralf Staebler James R. Drummond N. T. O’Neill 《Climatic change》2012,115(1):35-58
This paper summarizes the main elements of four IPY projects that examine the Arctic Atmosphere. All four projects focus on present conditions with a view to anticipating possible climate change. All four investigate the Arctic atmosphere, ocean, ice, and land interfacial surfaces. One project uses computer models to simulate the dynamics of the Arctic atmosphere, storms, and their interactions with the ocean and ice interface. Another project uses statistical methods to infer transports of pollutants as simulated in large-scale global atmospheric and oceanic models verifying results with available observations. A third project focuses on measurements of pollutants at the ice-ocean?Catmosphere interface, with reference to model estimates. The fourth project is concerned with multiple, high accuracy measurements at Eureka in the Canadian Archipelago. While these projects are distinctly different, led by different teams and interdisciplinary collaborators, with different technical approaches and methodologies, and differing objectives, they all strive to understand the processes of the Arctic atmosphere and climate, and to lay the basis for projections of future changes. Key findings include: ? Decreased sea ice leads to more intense storms, higher winds, reduced surface albedo, increased surface air temperature, and enhanced vertical mixing in the upper ocean. ? Arctic warming may affect toxic chemicals by remobilizing persistent organic pollutants and augmenting mercury deposition/retention in the environment. ? Changes in sea ice can dramatically change processes in and at the ice surface related to ozone, mercury and bromine oxide and related chemical/physical properties. ? Structure and properties of the Arctic atmospheric??troposphere to stratosphere??and tracking of transport of pollution and smoke plumes from mid-latitudes to the poles. 相似文献
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Substantial reduction in Arctic sea ice in recent decades has intensified air-sea interaction over the Arctic Ocean and has altered atmospheric states in the Arctic and surrounding high-latitude regions. This study has found that the atmospheric responses related to Arctic sea-ice melt in the cold season (October–March) depend on sea-ice fraction and are very sensitive to in situ sea surface temperature (SST) from a series of atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) simulations in which multiple combinations of SSTs and sea-ice concentrations are prescribed in the Arctic Ocean. It has been found that the amplitude of surface warming over the melted sea-ice region is controlled by concurrent in situ SST even if these simulations are forced by the same sea-ice concentration. Much of the sensitivity of surface warming to in situ SST are related with large changes in surface heat fluxes such as the outgoing long-wave flux in early winter (October–December) and the sensible and latent heat fluxes for the entire cold season. Vertical extension of surface warming and moistening is sensitive to these changes as well; the associated condensational heating modulates a static stability in the lower troposphere. This study also indicates that changes in SST fields in AGCM simulations must be implemented with extra care, especially in the melted sea-ice region in the Arctic. The statistical method introduced in this study for adjusting SSTs in conjunction with a given sea-ice change can help to model the atmospheric response to sea-ice loss more accurately. 相似文献
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A reliable data set of Arctic sea ice concentration based on satellite observations exists since 1972. Over this time period of 36 years western arctic temperatures have increased; the temperature rise varies significantly from one season to another and over multi-year time scales. In contrast to most of Alaska, however, on the North Slope the warming continued after 1976, when a circulation change occurred, as expressed in the PDO index. The mean temperature increase for Barrow over the 36-year period was 2.9°C, a very substantial change. Wind speeds increased by 18% over this time period, however, the increase were non-linear and showed a peak in the early 1990s. The sea ice extent of the Arctic Ocean has decreased strongly in recent years, and in September 2007 a new record in the amount of open water was recorded in the Western Arctic. We observed for the Southern Beaufort Sea a fairly steady increase in the mean annual amount of open water from 14% in 1972 to 39% in 2007, as deduced from the best linear fit. In late summer the decrease is much larger, and September has, on average, the least ice concentration (22%), followed by August (35%) and October (54%). The correlation coefficient between mean annual values of temperature and sea ice concentration was 0.84. On a monthly basis, the best correlation coefficient was found in October with 0.88. However, the relationship between winter temperatures and the sea ice break-up in summer was weak. While the temperature correlated well with the CO2 concentration (r?=?0.86), the correlation coefficient between CO2 and sea ice was lower (r?=??0.68). After comparing the ice concentration with 17 circulation indices, the best relation was found with the Pacific Circulation Index (r?=??0.59). 相似文献