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Ramp patterns in scalar traces such as temperature are the signature of coherent structures. A pseudo-wavelet analysis technique was developed in which ideal saw-tooth patterns of varying size were used as basis functions and fitted to temperature and velocity data. Data recorded from three very different vegetation stands were examined in this study. It was found that the most probable structure duration for the forest canopy was in the range 35–40 s, for the orchard canopy it was 20–25 s and for the maize it was 15–20 s. When expressed in non-dimensional form, the structure duration probability distribution for the maize canopy was about a decade larger than for the forest canopy, with the orchard canopy intermediate. The mean eddy duration versus wind shear relation falls on a narrow band for all three canopies, indicating that wind shear at the canopy top is the determining factor for the scale of the coherent eddies. The inverse of duration and intermittency of coherent structures exhibits a tendency of independence from wind shear at higher wind shear values. Coherent structures transport heat in a more efficient way than do smaller scale, less coherent motions. In all the canopies, the heat flux fractions associated with coherent structures are at least 10% higher than the corresponding time fraction. 相似文献
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Monin–Obukhov similarity functions for the structure parameters of temperature and humidity are needed to derive surface heat and water vapour fluxes from scintillometer measurements and it is often assumed that the two functions are identical in the atmospheric surface layer. Nevertheless, this assumption has not yet been verified experimentally. This study investigates the dissimilarity between the turbulent transport of sensible heat and water vapour, with a specific focus on the difference between the Monin–Obukhov similarity functions for the structure parameters. Using two datasets collected over homogeneous surfaces where the surface sources of sensible heat and water vapour are well correlated, we observe that under stable and very unstable conditions, the two functions are similar. This similarity however breaks down under weakly unstable conditions; in that regime, the absolute values of the correlations between temperature and humidity are also observed to be low, most likely due to large-scale eddies that transport unsteadiness, advection or entrainment effects from the outer layer. We analyze and demonstrate how this reduction in the correlation leads to dissimilarity between the turbulent transport of these two scalars and the corresponding Monin–Obukhov similarity functions for their structure parameters. A model to derive sensible and latent heat fluxes from structure parameters without measuring the friction velocity is tested and found to work very well under moderately to strongly unstable conditions (−z/L > 0.5). Finally, we discuss the modelling of the cross-structure parameter over wet surfaces, which is crucial for correcting water vapour effects on optical scintillometer measurements and also for obtaining surface sensible and latent heat fluxes from the two-wavelength scintillometry. 相似文献
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There is an ongoing important debate about the role of water vapour in climate change. Predictions of future climate change depend strongly on the magnitude of the water vapour feedback and until now models have almost exclusively been relied upon to quantify this feedback. In this work we employ observations of water vapour changes, together with detailed radiative calculations to estimate the water vapour feedback for the case of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. We then compare our observed estimate with that calculated from a relatively large ensemble of simulations from a complex coupled climate model. We calculate an observed water vapour feedback parameter of –1.6 Wm–2 K–1, with uncertainty placing the feedback parameter between –0.9 to –2.5 Wm–2 K–1. The uncertain is principally from natural climate variations that contaminate the volcanic cooling. The observed estimates are consistent with that found in the climate model, with the ensemble average model feedback parameter being –2.0 Wm–2 K–1, with a 5–95% range of –0.4 to –3.6 Wm–2 K–1 (as in the case of the observations, the spread is due to an inability to separate the forced response from natural variability). However, in both the upper troposphere and Southern Hemisphere the observed model water vapour response differs markedly from the observations. The observed range represents a 40%–400% increase in the magnitude of surface temperature change when compared to a fixed water vapour response and is in good agreement with values found in other studies. Variability, both in the observed value and in the climate models feedback parameter, between different ensemble members, suggests that the long-term water vapour feedback associated with global climate change could still be a factor of 2 or 3 different than the mean observed value found here and the model water vapour feedback could be quite different from this value; although a small water vapour feedback appears unlikely. We also discuss where in the atmosphere water vapour changes have their largest effect on surface climate. 相似文献
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Characteristics of anomalous precipitation events over eastern China during the past five centuries 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Characteristics of anomalous precipitation events during the past five centuries in North China (NC) and the middle-lower
Yangtze River Valley (MLYRV) were investigated using the data network of dryness/wetness index (DWI) over eastern China. The
high occurrence frequency of anomalous precipitation events mainly occurred at periods of high solar forcing, active volcanic
eruption, and large anthropogenic forcing (the twentieth century). Coherence and dipole were the two dominant modes in spatial
patterns of anomalous precipitation events. Coherent floods dominated the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whereas coherent
droughts occurred frequently in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. The dipole patterns of anomalous precipitation events
were the most frequent in the twentieth century. NC experienced more floods in the cold periods than warm periods. Both NC
and the MLYRV experienced far fewer droughts and more floods in the warm eighteenth century when natural climate forcing dominated,
and more droughts in the twentieth century when anthropogenic forcing dominated. Coherent drought was the only spatial pattern
of precipitation significantly associated with explosive low-latitude volcanic eruptions. The increased coherent droughts
and dipole patterns in the twentieth century support the findings of previous modeling studies that the tropospheric aerosols
and human-induced land cover changes play important roles in the changes of summer rainfall over eastern China.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
This paper is a contribution to the AMIP-CMIP Diagnostic Sub-project on General Circulation Model Simulation of the East Asian
Climate, coordinated by W.-C. Wang. 相似文献
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Structure functions are used to study the dissipation and inertial range scales of turbulent energy, to parametrize remote turbulence measurements, and to characterize ramp features in the turbulent field. Ramp features are associated with turbulent coherent structures, which dominate energy and mass fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer. The analysis of structure functions to identify ramp characteristics is used in surface renewal methods for estimating fluxes. It is unclear how commonly observed different scales of ramp-like shapes (i.e., smaller ramps and spikes embedded in larger ramps) influence structure function analysis. Here, we examine the impact of two ramp-like scales on structure function analysis using artificially generated data. The range of time lags in structure function analysis was extended to include time lags typically associated with isotropic turbulence to those larger than the ramp durations. The Van Atta procedure (Arch Mech 29:161–171, 1977) has been expanded here to resolve the characteristics of two-scale ramp models. This new method accurately, and in some cases, exactly determines the amplitude and duration of both ramp scales. Spectral analysis was applied to the structure functions for a broad range of time lags to provide qualitative support for the expanded Van Atta procedure results. The theory reported here forms the foundation for novel methods of analyzing turbulent coherent structures. 相似文献
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小波系数谱分析方法是结合小波分析和高分辨率谱分析的一种统计方法,可以用来同时识别时间序列中相干结构的生命尺度和出现周期,可以很好地描述相干结构的演变过程。基于此方法,作者分析了2004年11月在河北省白洋淀地区的陆地和岛上两个观测点（分别代表陆地和水面两种不同下垫面）湍流湿度脉动的相干结构特征,结果表明陆地和水上湿度序列的相干结构尺度分布相似,并且尺度与周期之间的关系一致:小于5 s的相干结构不连续出现,而且通常伴有更大尺度的相干结构,而5~30s的相干结构有与其尺度差不多的周期。在寻找更大尺度的相干结构时发现存在一个尺度,当大于某个周期时,在各个周期上这个尺度的相干结构都显著;与正交小波变换识别相干结构主尺度的方法识别的相干结构主尺度一致。另外,小尺度结构不连续出现也可以解释小尺度湍流能量变化比较大。 相似文献
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Human activity increases the atmospheric water vapour content in an indirect way through climate feedbacks. We conclude here that human activity also has a direct influence on the water vapour concentration through irrigation. In idealised simulations we estimate a global mean radiative forcing in the range of 0.03 to +0.1 Wm–2 due to the increase in water vapour from irrigation. However, because the water cycle is embodied in the climate system, irrigation has a more complex influence on climate. We also simulate a change in the temperature vertical profile and a large surface cooling of up to 0.8 K over irrigated land areas. This is of opposite sign than expected from the radiative forcing alone, and this questions the applicability of the radiative forcing concept for such a climatic perturbation. Further, this study shows stronger links than previously recognised between climate change and freshwater scarcity which are environmental issues of paramount importance for the twenty first century. 相似文献
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Coherent Structures and the Dissimilarity of Turbulent Transport of Momentum and Scalars in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer 总被引：7，自引：7，他引：0
Atmospheric stability effects on the dissimilarity between the turbulent transport of momentum and scalars (water vapour and
temperature) are investigated in the neutral and unstable atmospheric surface layers over a lake and a vineyard. A decorrelation
of the momentum and scalar fluxes is observed with increasing instability. Moreover, different measures of transport efficiency
(correlation coefficients, efficiencies based on quadrant analysis and bulk transfer coefficients) indicate that, under close
to neutral conditions, momentum and scalars are transported similarly whereas, as the instability of the atmosphere increases,
scalars are transported increasingly more efficiently than momentum. This dissimilarity between the turbulent transport of
momentum and scalars under unstable conditions concurs with, and is likely caused by, a change in the topology of turbulent
coherent structures. Previous laboratory and field studies report that under neutral conditions hairpin vortices and hairpin
packets are present and dominate the vertical fluxes, while under free-convection conditions thermal plumes are expected.
Our results (cross-stream vorticity variation, quadrant analysis and time series analysis) are in very good agreement with
this picture and confirm a change in the structure of the coherent turbulent motions under increasing instability, although
the exact structure of these motions and how they are modified by stability requires further investigation based on three-dimensional
flow data. 相似文献
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Impact of Terrain Heterogeneity on Coherent Structure Properties: Numerical Approach 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
Clement Fesquet Sylvain Dupont Philippe Drobinski Thomas Dubos Christian Barthlott 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2009,133(1):71-92
A three-dimensional large-eddy simulation (LES) model, which includes the effects of plant–atmosphere interactions, is used
to study the effects of surface inhomogeneities on near-surface coherent structures over an open field and behind a forest
canopy. These simulated conditions are representative of two wind sectors of the Site Instrumental de Recherche par Télédétection
Atmosphérique (SIRTA) experimental site at the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Palaiseau, France. Coherent structure properties
deduced from wavelet transforms of the simulated near-surface vertical velocity time series are not modified by upstream terrain
heterogeneities, in agreement with site measurements. This feature is related to the nature of structures detected from the
vertical velocity time series. The turbulence close to the surface seems composed of both local coherent structures and large
coherent structures reflecting outer-layer properties, which depend on the overall surface heterogeneity or upstream heterogeneity.
It is argued that the streamwise velocity is representative of these large outer-layer structures that impinge onto the ground
through a top-down mechanism as identified through the space–time correlation of the wind velocity components. In contrast,
the vertical velocity is more representative of small structures resulting from the impingement of the large outer-layer structures.
These small structures represent locally-generated, active turbulence, which adjusts rapidly to local surface conditions,
and consequently they are only weakly dependent on upstream heterogeneities. 相似文献
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William Ingram 《Climate Dynamics》2013,40(3-4):925-933
The water vapour feedback is the largest physical climate feedback. It also gives the second-largest contribution to the range of uncertainty in climate sensitivity in General Circulation Models (GCMs). Tracing these differences back to their physical causes in the hope of constraining climate sensitivity requires an appropriate quantification. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change judge that the conventional diagnosis of a “water vapour feedback” and a “lapse rate feedback” provides little insight into differences between GCMs’ climate sensitivities. We show that the conventionally diagnosed water vapour feedback is in fact formally useless for investigating differences between GCMs’ climate sensitivities—the anticorrelation between conventional “water vapour feedback” and “lapse rate feedback” makes the correlation between the “water vapour feedback” and their sum insignificant: i.e. statistically, knowing this “feedback” allows one to conclude nothing about the sum and thence about climate sensitivity. This follows primarily from how little relative humidity (RH) changes with climate change in GCMs. A more detailed physical analysis concludes that the overall mean decrease of RH on warming seen in GCMs is robustly physically based. This and other physical arguments then suggest that the stronger the positive “water vapour feedback”, the less sensitive climate can be expected to be. A diagnosis based on the “partly-Simpsonian” model of water vapour feedback avoids these problems. On the conventional view of the water vapour feedback, naive extrapolation of variations within present-day climate suggests that parts of our planet are close to locally reaching conditions that would allow a run-away water vapour greenhouse effect once they were extensive enough. Of course this has never occurred in geological history, and is not seen in Earth-like GCMs. Again, the “partly-Simpsonian” approach provides a simple qualitative explanation, by showing that the water vapour feedback can only cancel part of the basic Planck’s Law negative feedback. 相似文献
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Eight years (1980–1987) of Wake Island rawinsonde data are used to derive atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) depth, integrated boundary-layer moisture, and a measure of boundary-layer ageostrophy. The variability in these processes controls the accumulation of moisture and heat in the tradewind regions and their transport to regions of intense convection. Preliminary analyses using different methods reveal quasi-periodic signals in these data in the 30–60 days range. Cross correlation calculations in this intraseasonal range show that these ABL variables are coherent with each other and with the low-level flow. The integrated ABL variables and the ABL height exhibit local in-phase relationships. At higher frequencies, the analyses show intense diurnal variation of boundary-layer height but only a weak diurnal signal in integrated ABL properties. At the lower frequency range, the analyses show a significant reduction in the amplitude of the seasonal and intraseasonal variation in ageostrophy during the strong El-Niño event of 1982/1983. The results clearly establish a relationship between integrated water vapour and divergent ABL processes (Ekman pumping/suction) in which shallower (deeper) ABLs are associated with mass and moisture divergence (convergence) and higher (lower) sea-level pressure. A possible interpretation in terms of a remote dynamic response of the trade inversion and ABL processes to equatorial deep convection is suggested. 相似文献
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Summary The Squall Lines are the most important convective systems of the West African Sahel region yielding precipitation during the summer months mainly from June to September.The composite method is used to show the average structure of the continental Squall Lines observed during the WA-MEX period July 1979. Composite fields of flow and moisture are produced of the areas within the Squall Lines as well as of their environment to show the coupling between both the Squall Lines and the larger scales features such as the African Easterly Jet, the Easterly Waves and the Monsoon Front. The Squall Lines are preferably situated west of the Easterly Wave trough whereas the area east of the trough mostly is Squall Line free. Here the northward directed water vapour flux into the Sahel region is enhanced. Furthermore, north-ward moisture transport occurs north of the Squall Lines. The water vapour of both fluxes from the south as well as the water vapours available from intensive local evaporation in the Squall Line free space are then incorporated in the subsequent Squall Lines and thus provide the Sahel région with the essential rains.With 10 Figures 相似文献
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Michael Gerding Christoph Ritter Marion Müller Roland Neuber 《Atmospheric Research》2004,71(4):289-302
Ground-based lidars can provide continuous observations of tropospheric humidity profiles using the Raman scattering of light by water vapour and nitrogen molecules. We will present specific humidity profiles obtained at the high Arctic location Ny-Ålesund (Spitsbergen, 79°N). Under nighttime conditions the observations cover a range from about 500 m altitude up to the upper troposphere. Daylight limits the observations to the lower troposphere, depending on atmospheric transmission and the water vapour content. In a case study on 29 January, simultaneous observations of humidity and aerosol extinction show distinct differences in the various altitudes during the advection of aerosol-rich air masses. In the boundary layer, the aerosol is less affected by the humidity. In the free troposphere, the lidar ratio was observed to be up to 60 sr with some evidence for the uptake of water vapour by the aerosol particles. In another case study from 28 February 2002, the influence of the mean wind direction and the orography on the water vapour concentration near the ground and in the free troposphere will be discussed. During wintertime, a humidity inversion up to about 1.5 km altitude with dry air near the ground has frequently been found with wind from the southeast. Such local effects and small-scale structures observed by stationary lidar mostly cannot be resolved by other sounding methods like passive satellite soundings. 相似文献
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Raghavendra Krishnamurthy Ronald Calhoun Harindra Fernando 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2010,136(1):45-57
Accurate estimation of dissipation rate is important in understanding and analyzing turbulent flows found in environment and
engineering processes. Many previous studies have focused on measuring the local dissipation rate at a single point or averaged
dissipation rate over a suitable area. Since coherent Doppler lidar is capable of providing multi-point measurements covering
a large spatial extent, it is well-suited for examining the distribution of dissipation in the atmosphere. In this paper,
an approach is presented that is based on retrieving the dissipation rate from coherent Doppler lidar data using large-eddy
simulation. Two Coherent Doppler lidars performed range height indicator (RHI) scans of a vertical/cross-barrier plane during
the Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX). Two-dimensional velocity vectors were retrieved using a least squares method.
The velocity vectors retrieved from co-planar RHI scans are used to estimate subgrid scale (SGS) quantities through a known
SGS parameterization. For the T-REX datasets analyzed, the dissipation rate was found to increase in the presence of rotors,
subrotors, and, as expected, in regions of high wind shear. Owing to the presence of sharper gradients in subrotors, their
dissipation rate is generally larger than that of rotors. 相似文献
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Sneh Joshi Kireet Kumar Bimal Pande Mukesh Chandra Pant 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2013,120(3-4):177-187
The present study is an attempt to analyse the precipitable water vapour (PWV) derived from Global Positioning System (GPS) and observed meteorological data over Almora, Central Himalayan Region. The PWV values derived using GPS study is compared with the corresponding moderate resolution imaging spectro-radiometer (MODIS) data. The statistical analysis reveals a positive correlation between both methods. Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer near-infrared (MODIS NIR) clear column water vapour product shows a higher correlation (R 2 = 90–93 %) with GPS-derived precipitable water vapour on annual scale as compared to the seasonal scale (R 2 = 62–87 %). MODIS is found to be overestimating in NIR clear column where the magnitude of bias and RMSE show systematic changes from season to season. Monsoon is an important phenomenon in the Indian weather context and holds significant importance in Central Himalayan ecosystem. The monthly and seasonal variation in precipitable water vapour is related with monsoon onset in the region. Diurnal variations in precipitable water vapour are studied with other meteorological data over Almora during dry and wet season. The precipitable water vapour had minimum value in the morning, increases in the afternoon to evening and again decreases to the midnight in both the dry and wet seasons. These results suggest that diurnal variation of water vapour is caused by the transport of water vapour by thermally induced local circulation. 相似文献
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B. M. Koprov V. M. Koprov T. I. Makarova G. S. Golitsyn 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2004,111(1):19-32
Simultaneous measurements of the instantaneous values of absolute temperatureat seven heights within the lower 36 m of the atmospheric boundary layer underdifferent stability conditions were carried out, accompanied by measurements ofthe wind velocity components at two levels and of solar radiation flux at the surface.The data obtained allow one to investigate individual convective cells known ascoherent structures (CS). Outside the CS, i.e., during quiet periods, an instanttemperature profile is in close agreement with the dry-adiabatic lapse rate, butwithin CS the temperature changes much faster with height, and the shape ofthe profile varies significantly.A method was developed to transform temperature records from sensors atseveral heights into an other form, namely, into temporal variations of theheights of isothermal surfaces. Since coherent structures were found to advectwith the mean wind velocity, these temporal height variations may be transformedinto the spatial ones, i.e., into the xoz-plane section of the temperature field.In such a pictorial presentation coherent structures look like asymmetric columnsof heat, penetrating the whole atmospheric surface layer.Coherent structures also exist in the stable stratified surface layer, but they have aninverse asymmetry and occupy only the lower several metres. Wavelike activitydominates in the upper part of the stable surface layer.The characteristic time of surface-layer adjustment to the rapid changes of solarradiation (due to cloud shadows or cloud gaps) was found to be on the order ofone minute. Such a time interval is required for coherent structure to reach the topof surface layer. 相似文献
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Some evaluations of drag and bulk transfer coefficients over water bodies of different sizes 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
B. B. Hicks 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1972,3(2):201-213
Three recent experiments allow evaluation of the bulk transfer coefficients for momentum, water vapour and sensible heat over water bodies of different sizes. As part of a study of evaporation rates from a swamp, measurements of latent and sensible heat fluxes were made over Lake Wyangan in southern N.S.W., Australia. This lake is of several kilometers diameter. In a later experiment, Reynolds stress and sensible heat transfer were measured from a natural-gas platform standing in Bass Strait, south of mainland Australia. The most recent experiment involved the direct measurement of each of these turbulent fluxes from a fixed tower erected in Lake Michigan, U.S.A.Perhaps the most important of the results is the finding that drag coefficients measured over Bass Strait are not significantly different from those over Lake Michigan, despite the obvious differences in depth, fetch, and hence surface wave structure. At both locations, drag coefficients are found to increase slightly with increasing wind speed, while at low wind speeds they are not significantly different from those corresponding to aerodynamic smoothness.Near-neutral bulk transfer coefficients for sensible heat and for water vapour are found to be similar. An average value of about 1.4 × 10–3 is obtained.It is emphasized that stability effects should be considered in any discussion of drag coefficients or bulk transfer coefficients. Large errors can result if near-neutrality is incorrectly assumed. 相似文献
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