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Observations and Large-Eddy Simulations of Entrainment in the Sheared Sahelian Boundary Layer 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Guylaine Canut Fleur Couvreux Marie Lothon David Pino Frédérique Saïd 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,142(1):79-101
At the top of the planetary boundary layer, the entrainment of air, which incorporates dry and warm air from the free troposphere
into the boundary layer, is a key process for exchanges with the free troposphere since it controls the growth of the boundary
layer. Here, we focus on the semi-arid boundary layer where the entrainment process is analyzed using aircraft observations
collected during the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis experiment and large-eddy simulations. The role of the entrainment
is specifically enhanced in this region where very large gradients at the planetary boundary-layer top can be found due to
the presence of the moist, cold monsoon flow on which the dry, warm Harmattan flow is superimposed. A first large-eddy simulation
is designed based on aircraft observations of 5 June 2006 during the transition period between dry conditions and the active
monsoon phase. The simulation reproduces the boundary-layer development and dynamics observed on this day. From this specific
case, sensitivity tests are carried out to cover a range of conditions observed during seven other flights made in the same
transition period in order to describe the entrainment processes in detail. The combination of large-eddy simulations and
observations allows us to test the parametrization of entrainment in a mixed-layer model with zero-order and first-order approximations
for the entrainment zone. The latter representation of the entrainment zone gives a better fit with the conditions encountered
in the Sahelian boundary layer during the transition period because large entrainment thicknesses are observed. The sensitivity
study also provides an opportunity to highlight the contribution of shear stress and scalar jumps at the top of the boundary
layer in the entrainment process, and to test a relevant parametrization published in the recent literature for a mixed-layer
model. 相似文献
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Buoyancy fluxes in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) for the cloud street regime, observed during the Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment (GALE), have been analyzed using the technique of joint frequency distribution. For the lower half of the MABL, the results suggest that the buoyancy flux is mainly generated by the rising thermals and the sinking compensating ambient air, and is mainly consumed by the entrainment and detrainment of thermals, penetrative convection, and the entrainment from the MABL top.The results are compared to those from previous studies of mesoscale cellular convection (Air-Mass Transformation Experiment, AMTEX), the dry convective boundary layer, and the trade-wind MABL. For the lower MABL, the quadrant buoyancy fluxes, fractional coverages, and flux intensities are in good agreement with those of mesoscale cellular convection (AMTEX) and the dry convective boundary layer. The results suggest that, if the buoyancy flux is primarily driven by the temperature flux, the physical processes for generating buoyancy flux mentioned above are about the same for the lower boundary layers over land and ocean, even with different convective regimes. For the trade-wind MABL, the buoyancy flux is mainly driven by the moisture flux; the quadrant flux intensities are stronger than those of the other three studies except for the buoyant updrafts (thermals). These results suggest that the entrainment and detrainment of thermals are more effective in the trade-wind MABL than in the boundary layers driven by the temperature flux.Scale analysis of the buoyancy flux is in good agreement with that of AMTEX. For the lower half of the MABL, the buoyancy flux is mainly generated by the intermediate scale (200 m to 2 km), which includes the dominant convective thermals in the surface layer and the mixed layer. The scale smaller than 200 m is important only in the surface layer. The scale larger than 2 km, which includes the roll vortices, increases its significance upward. While most of the positive and negative fluxes are associated with the updrafts for the intermediate scale, the downdrafts are as important as updrafts for the larger scale.ST Systems Corporation, Lanham, MD, 20706, U.S.A. 相似文献
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F. D. Heidt 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1977,12(4):439-461
This paper describes a theoretical and experimental study of penetrative convection within an initially thermally stably stratified fluid heated from below. Emphasis is placed on the experimental investigation of the growth of the mixed layer and the entrainment at its boundary. Both processes play an important role in density-induced geophysical phenomena such as the lifting of an inversion layer during the morning and the deepening of a thermocline in a lake during the fall.Many laboratory experiments with water as the experimental fluid were performed, in which the convection process was generated and visualised. The height of the mixed layer, heat transfer across the bottom interface and temperature profiles were measured as functions of time.Theoretically-based analytical equations are given, which predict the thickness and temperature of the mixed layer. The equations involve one empirical factor characterising the entrainment rate at the interface between the mixed and the upper stable layer.The experimental results confirm the theoretical equations and show that the empirical factor is a constant. From this, an entrainment rate is calculated which agrees well with values presented in the meteorological literature.Work performed at Sonderforschungsbereich 80, University of Karlsruhe. 相似文献
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基于激光雷达遥感和参数化模式研究城市混合层的发展机制 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
利用北京大学的微脉冲激光雷达(MPL)观测的偏南气流条件下的混合层高度和夹卷层厚度探测资料,研究简单天气条件下城市混合层的发展机制并与GB94的参数化方案相互映证.通过激光雷达遥感的混合层高度和夹卷层厚度计算了混合层顶的夹卷率A,得到其平衡夹卷阶段的值为0.24.在不考虑机械混合前提下反演了地面感热通量,结果表明遥感的反演值与梯度法的计算值有系统性偏差,但总体上仍旧有较好的相关.偏差量的大小反映了影响混合层发展的机械湍流的参数B,进一步通过GB91模式的模拟确定该参数的最佳值约为3.5.在此基础上讨论了混 相似文献
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Bryan R. Kerman 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1979,16(3):395-408
A model of buoyancy- and momentum-driven industrial plumes in a freely convective boundary layer is proposed. The development combines the Lagrangian similarity models of Yaglom for non-buoyant releases in the convective surface layer with the Scorer similarity model for industrial plumes. Constraints on the validity of the extension of Yaglom’s model to the entire convective planetary boundary layer, arrived at by consideration of Batchelor’s formulation for diffusion in an inertial subrange, are often met in practice. The resulting formulation applies to an interval of time in which the entrainment of the atmosphere by the plume is balanced by the entrainment of the plume by the atmosphere. It is argued that during this interval, both maximum plume rise and ground contact are achieved. Further examination of the physical interrelationship with the Csanady-Briggs formulation serves to consolidate the model hypotheses, as well as to simplify the derivation of maximum ground-level concentrations. Experimental evidence is presented for the validity of the model, based on Moore’s published data. 相似文献
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Bryan R. Kerman 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1979,16(4):395-408
A model of buoyancy- and momentum-driven industrial plumes in a freely convective boundary layer is proposed. The development combines the Lagrangian similarity models of Yaglom for non-buoyant releases in the convective surface layer with the Scorer similarity model for industrial plumes. Constraints on the validity of the extension of Yaglom’s model to the entire convective planetary boundary layer, arrived at by consideration of Batchelor’s formulation for diffusion in an inertial subrange, are often met in practice. The resulting formulation applies to an interval of time in which the entrainment of the atmosphere by the plume is balanced by the entrainment of the plume by the atmosphere. It is argued that during this interval, both maximum plume rise and ground contact are achieved. Further examination of the physical interrelationship with the Csanady-Briggs formulation serves to consolidate the model hypotheses, as well as to simplify the derivation of maximum ground-level concentrations. Experimental evidence is presented for the validity of the model, based on Moore’s published data. 相似文献
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In this study we estimate boundary-layer growth and entrainment bycombining radiosonde and micrometeorological observations with asimple coupled boundary-layer and land surface model. A variational(smoothing) approach is used to find the optimal estimate ofentrainment over the daytime window. This method is appealingbecause it accounts for the uncertainty in the various data streams,while enforcing the dynamics of the model (i.e., water and energybudgets in the boundary layer, mixed-layer growth, etc.). Thetraditional variational framework was modified in this study toinclude an ensemble approach, which not only yields a (mean) estimateof entrainment, but a measure of its uncertainty as well. Themethodology is applied to a field experiment site in Kansas. Resultsfrom this study indicate a much larger ratio of entrainment to surfacefluxes compared to early literature values from other sites. However,our results are consistent with recent estimates at the site usingindependent estimation methods. In tests where radiosonde data werewithheld, reasonable skill in entrainment estimation was still shown,suggesting the potential for more widespread applications where onlymicrometeorological data are available. Finally, the data assimilationframework presented here has not traditionally been used inatmospheric boundary-layer studies, and may provide a useful approachfor studying other aspects of the boundary layer in the future. 相似文献
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夹卷对郊外大气边界层内臭氧影响的数值模拟研究 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3
夹卷是大气边界层与自由大气进行能量和物质交换的重要途径,对边界层动力结构及边界层内温度、水汽和各种污染物浓度有重要影响。利用化学-地表-大气-土壤(CLASS)模式定量评估了夹卷过程对远郊地区大气边界层内臭氧（O3）浓度的影响并与大气化学反应贡献进行了对比,结合地面O3、NOx及边界层高度、位温和比湿等观测资料和再分析资料对CLASS模拟结果进行了定量评估。结果表明:CLASS模式能较为真实地模拟夹卷和大气光化学反应对远郊地区大气边界层臭氧浓度的影响,且当自由大气层内臭氧浓度达到一定值时,两者对边界层内臭氧峰值影响相当。数值试验结果进一步揭示,夹卷对控制氮氧化物（NOX）和可挥发性有机物(VOCS)排放源控制效果有重要影响,且当夹卷区内O3跳跃值增大到一定时,可完全抵消源排放减排控制的效果。本研究旨在表明,为有效控制近地层臭氧浓度,在制定人为污染源减排措施时必须考虑自由大气层臭氧的夹卷贡献。 相似文献
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We discuss the structure and evolution of a cloud-free atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) during daytime over land, starting from a shallow ABL at sunrise and developing into a deep ABL with strong convection in the afternoon. The structure of the turbulence in the lower half of a convective ABL capped by an inversion is reasonably well understood. Less is known about the details of the turbulence in higher regions affected by entrainment, because of the difficulty in taking turbulence measurements there. For the evolution in time of the height of the ABL and its mean potential temperature mixed-layer models have been developed that give satisfactory agreement with observations. It has been shown that for many practical applications accurate knowledge of forcing functions and boundary conditions is more important than a refinement of the entrainment hypothesis. Observations show that the assumption of well-mixedness of first-order moments of conservative variables is not valid for all quantities. A simple similarity relation for the inclusion of the effect of entrainment on the shape of the vertical profiles is given. 相似文献
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A single-column model (SCM) is developed in the regional climate model RegCM4. The evolution of a dry convection boundary layer (DCBL) is used to evaluate this SCM. Moreover, four planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes, namely the Holtslag-Boville scheme (HB), Yonsei University scheme (YSU), and two University of Washington schemes (UW01, Grenier-Bretherton-McCaa scheme and UW09, Bretherton-Park scheme), are compared by using the SCM approach. A large-eddy simulation (LES) of the DCBL is performed as a benchmark to examine how well a PBL parameterization scheme reproduces the LES results, and several diagnostic outputs are compared to evaluate the schemes. The results show that the SCM is proper constructed. In general, with the DCBL case, the YSU scheme performs best for reproducing the LES results, which include well-mixed features and vertical sensible heat fluxes; the simulated wind speed, turbulent kinetic energy, entrainment flux, and height of the entrainment zone are all underestimated in the UW09; the UW01 has all those biases of the UW09 but larger, and the simulated potential temperature is not well mixed; the HB is the least skillful scheme, by which the PBL height, entrainment flux, height of the entrainment zone, and the vertical gradients within the mixed layer are all overestimated, and a inversion layer near the top of the surface layer is wrongly simulated.Although more cases and further testing are required, these simulations show encouraging results towards the use of this SCM framework for evaluating the simulated physical processes by the RegCM4. 相似文献
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On the Effect of Surface Heat-Flux Heterogeneities on the Mixed-Layer-Top Entrainment 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Matthias Sühring Björn Maronga Florian Herbort Siegfried Raasch 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2014,151(3):531-556
We used a set of large-eddy simulations to investigate the effect of one-dimensional stripe-like surface heat-flux heterogeneities on mixed-layer top entrainment. The profiles of sensible heat flux and the temporal evolution of the boundary-layer depth revealed decreased entrainment for small heat-flux amplitudes and increased entrainment for large heat-flux amplitudes, compared to the homogeneously-heated mixed layer. For large heat-flux amplitudes the largest entrainment was observed for patch sizes in the order of the boundary-layer depth, while for significantly smaller or larger patch sizes entrainment was similar as in the homogeneous case. In order to understand the underlying physics of this impact, a new approach was developed to infer local information on entrainment by means of the local flux divergence. We found an entrainment maximum over the centre of the stronger heated surface patch, where thermal energy is accumulated by the secondary circulation (SC) that was induced by the surface heterogeneity. Furthermore, we observed an entrainment maximum over the less heated patch as well, which we suppose is to be linked to the SC-induced horizontal flow convergence at the top of the convective boundary layer (CBL). For small heat-flux amplitudes a counteracting effect dominates that decreases entrainment, which we suppose is the horizontal advection of cold air in the lower, and warm air in the upper, CBL by the SC, stabilizing the CBL and thus weakening thermal convection. Moreover, we found that a mean wind can reduce the heterogeneity-induced impact on entrainment. If the flow is aligned perpendicular to the border between the differentially-heated patches, the SC and thus its impact on entrainment vanishes due to increased horizontal mixing, even for moderate wind speeds. However, if the flow is directed parallel to the border between the differentially-heated patches, the SC and thus its impact on entrainment persists. 相似文献
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大涡模式垂直分辨率在夹卷及示踪物垂直传输模拟结果分析中的作用 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
基于敦煌野外观测资料和大涡模式,研究了垂直方向不同尺度湍涡对夹卷及示踪物垂直传输的影响,明确了模式垂直分辨率在模拟结果分析中的作用。结果表明:垂直方向上小尺度湍涡对夹卷作用贡献更大,小尺度湍涡较多时夹卷层相对更暖,而夹卷层厚度、夹卷强度和风速变化受垂直方向湍涡尺度影响较小。当垂直分辨率为50 m时,越往夹卷层上部,上升气流和下沉气流分布较多且强度较大;分辨率为10、20和30 m时,夹卷层各高度垂直速度、位温和示踪物浓度分布较接近。另外,垂直方向湍涡尺度对示踪物垂直传输高度影响不大,而对示踪物的空间分布有一定作用。当大尺度湍涡较多且强度较强时,越有利于将高浓度的示踪物向上传输。综合考虑到模式采用较高分辨率模拟时产生的噪音及计算时间等问题,认为模式采用30 m的垂直分辨率,既能较好地模拟出夹卷层平均结构特征,又能模拟出夹卷层湍流的精细分布,是较为理想的选择。 相似文献
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J. W. Deardorff 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1974,7(2):199-226
The mean structure calculated by a three-dimensional numerical model of a heated planetary boundary layer, in simulation of DAY 33 of the Australian Wangara data, has been previously described. The present study supplements it by describing properties of the calculated turbulence.A major finding is the importance of entrainment upon turbulence statistics relating to specific humidity, relative to those for potential temperature. The variances, skewness and spectra of velocity, temperature and humidity are presented, as are budget equations for kinetic energy, temperature and humidity variances and heat/moisture fluxes. These are interpreted with regard to the relative importance of the surface flux vs the flux due to entrainment at the top of the mixed layer, and in regard to the structure which would occur if the entrainment were to vanish.The Rotte-type closure assumption is tested for the correlation between the pressure fluctuation and the vertical gradient of vertical velocity, potential temperature, or specific humidity, and found to be qualitatively correct except near the top of the mixed layer.NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (U.S.A.). 相似文献
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Analytical solution for two-dimensional thermal plume updraft velocity is obtained under the assumption of a uniform temperature excess inside the plume. In this way, the thermal plume motion is modeled in both mixed layer and entrainment zone. Also, a semi-analytical solution is obtained using an empirical model for the plume temperature excess in the mixed layer. In addition, an analytical model for entrainment zone thickness is obtained by computing the overshoot distance of the modeled plumes, and a semi-analytical model by using the empirical model for plume temperature. By using a nonlinear profile for the lapse rate in the surface layer based on the Monin–Obukhov similarity theory, our model predicts that the characteristics of the surface layer plays an important role in the structure of the entrainment zone. Finally, our solutions for plume velocity allow us to consider the effect of the lateral entrainment on the plume excess temperature and velocity in the convective boundary layer. It is shown that the lateral entrainment has an important role on the plume dynamics and the solutions in the zero entrainment limit offer large overestimated values for the plume velocity, which also result in overestimated values of the entrainment zone thickness. 相似文献
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Lidar observations of boundary-layer development during a cold air outbreak over the Atlantic Ocean were examined. Very rapid rise rates were measured in the first 20 km off the coast. A large region of partial cloudiness was found to exist between the totally clear region near shore and the overcast region far from the coast. As the layer became overcast, rise rate of the boundary layer tripled, suggesting a direct relation between cloudiness and entrainment. Boundary-layer evolution was reasonably well simulated by a simple slab model. The model was not capable of predicting the area of partial cloudiness, nor the region of rapid entrainment near the coast. 相似文献
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Zbigniew Sorbjan 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2007,123(3):365-383
We examine daily (morning–afternoon) transitions in the atmospheric boundary layer based on large-eddy simulations. Under
consideration are the effects of the stratification at the top of the mixed layer and of the wind shear. The results describe
the transitory behaviour of temperature and wind velocity, their second moments, the boundary-layer height Z
m
(defined by the maximum of the potential temperature gradient) and its standard deviation σ
m
, the mixed-layer height z
i
(defined by the minimum of the potential temperature flux), entrainment velocity W
e, and the entrainment flux H
i
. The entrainment flux and the entrainment velocity are found to lag slightly in time with respect to the surface temperature
flux. The simulations imply that the atmospheric values of velocity variances, measured at various instants during the daytime,
and normalized in terms of the actual convective scale w*, are not expected to collapse to a single curve, but to produce a significant scatter of observational points. The measured
values of the temperature variance, normalized in terms of the actual convective scale Θ*, are expected to form a single curve in the mixed layer, and to exhibit a considerable scatter in the interfacial layer. 相似文献
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Impact of Boundary-Layer Processes on Near-Surface Turbulence Within the West African Monsoon 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Fabienne Lohou Frédérique Saïd Marie Lothon Pierre Durand Dominique Serça 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2010,136(1):1-23
High frequency measurements of near-surface meteorological data acquired in north Benin during the 2006 West African monsoon
seasonal cycle, in the context of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) experiment, offer insight into the
characteristics of surface turbulence in relation to planetary boundary-layer (PBL) processes. A wide range of conditions
is encountered at the lower and upper limits of the PBL: (i) from water-stressed to well-fed vegetation, and (ii) from small
to large humidity and temperature jumps at the PBL top inversion, due to the Saharan air layer overlying the monsoonal flow.
As a result, buoyant convection at the surface and entrainment at the PBL top play very different roles according to the considered
scalar. We show that, when the boundary-layer height reaches the shear level between the monsoonal and Harmattan flows, the
temperature source and humidity sink at the boundary-layer top are sufficient to allow the entrainment to affect the entire
boundary layer down to the surface. This situation occurs mainly during the drying and moistening periods of the monsoon cycle
and affects the humidity statistics in particular. In this case, the humidity turbulent characteristics at the surface are
no longer driven solely by buoyant convection, but also by entrainment at the boundary-layer top. Consequently, the Monin–Obukhov
similarity theory appears to fail for the parameterisation of humidity-related moments. 相似文献
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Cyrille Flamant Jacques Pelon Bart Brashers Robert A. Brown 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1999,93(1):47-73
The internal thermal boundary layer developing over the Mediterranean during a cold-air outbreak associated with a Tramontane event has been studied by means of airborne lidar, in situ sensors, and a modelling approach that consisted of nesting the University of Washington (UW) planetary boundary-layer (PBL) model in an advective zero-order jump model. This approach bypasses some of the deficiencies associated with each model: the absence of the dynamics in the mixed layer for the zero-order jump model and the lack of an inversion at the PBL top for the UW PBL model. Particular attention is given to the parameterization of the entrainment flux at the PBL top. Values of the entrainment closure parameter derived with the model when matching PBL structure observations are much lower than those derived with standard zero-order jump models. They also are in good agreement with values measured in different meteorological situations by other studies. This improvement is a result of the introduction of turbulent kinetic energy production in the mixed layer. 相似文献