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Abstract The relationships between monthly anomalies of sea surface temperature (SST) and monthly anomalies of several surface wind parameters are examined using ten years of data from the mid‐latitude North Pacific Ocean. The wind parameters involve both u3 * and curl τ, where u* is the atmospheric friction velocity and τ the surface stress. These quantities are calculated from surface wind components analysed on synoptic (6‐hourly) maps. In order to examine the effect of synoptic disturbances, the time series of surface wind components at each grid point is high‐pass filtered (passing periods less than 10 days) and the above wind parameters are calculated from both filtered and unfiltered wind components. Two statistically significant relationships are found between monthly anomalies of SST and those of the various wind parameters. The first is a large coherent negative correlation between monthly anomalies of u3 * calculated from the high‐pass filtered wind components and month‐to‐month changes in the SST anomalies in the Central Pacific. This relationship is attributed to the production of turbulent vertical mixing in the ocean by synoptic disturbances in the atmosphere. The second relationship is a large positive correlation between curl τ calculated from the unfiltered wind components and SST anomaly changes in the Eastern Pacific. This relationship, which is opposite to that expected from Ekman pumping, is attributed to a negative association between the wind stress curl and the meridional advection of heat by the eastern boundary current system. It is shown that these atmospheric forcing mechanisms explain up to 10 per cent of the variance of monthly SST anomalies in a large part of the mid‐latitude North Pacific Ocean. This amount is in addition to, but certainly less than, that which can be explained by anomalous horizontal advection through statistical relationships with sea‐level pressure anomalies (Davis, 1976). 相似文献
2.
A wind tunnel investigation of the wind erosion of uranium mine-tailings material typical of a northern Ontario site has been carried out. The aim of the study was to measure the effects of various parameters, including mean and turbulent wind characteristics of the boundary layer and surface moisture content, upon the erosion process. The analysis of experimental data has yielded a mathematical model for predicting the net vertical mass fluxes. The results show that the dry vertical flux is proportional to u
*
2.3and the wet flux to u
*
5.0 Partical size analysis was also carried out. 相似文献
3.
M. Segal 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1990,52(1-2):193-198
Calculations are made of the effects of thermal stability under a range of conditions, over the sea and land, on the physical factors (including the critical wind speed) affecting dust-storm generation, snow drift, and rough sea conditions. The computational procedure involves the surface friction velocity, u
*, and its relation with the aerodynamic roughness over aerodynamically rough, mobile surfaces. The results indicated that even at relatively high wind speeds, thermal effects under extreme advection situations may be significant, particularly for those properties of the agitated surface dependent on u
*
3 and u
*
4. 相似文献
4.
A quantative transposition model is introduced which determines hourly wind speeds in a representative tropical region (Central Sudan). The model consists of two parts. Firstly, a local boundary-layer model, based on the energy balance equation and the Businger-Dyer equations, is used to compute the average diurnal cycle of various characteristic boundary-layer parameters. Secondly, a horizontal transposition method is introduced to calculate wind speed behaviour at an arbitrary station from that at a reference station. This method is based on assumed spatial constancy of the turbulence parameter u
* in the period November–April in a region of about (700 × 800) km2 in Central Sudan. The constancy of u
* is concluded from the very stationary character of the climate. Model-computed hourly wind speeds are consistent with the potential wind speeds (at 10 m over open country) calculated from the measured data, and provide better local wind estimates than the conventional procedure which assumes constant regional hourly wind speeds. 相似文献
5.
Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1980,19(1):3-17
The indirect dissipation technique is used to estimate 1-min averages of friction velocity u
*in the surface layer over the tropical ocean. These estimates are compared to estimates of u
*obtained using a drag coefficient and the relative difference between the two is examined in relation to stability and averaging time. Plumes and downdrafts are found to be responsible for an anomalous behavior of the drag coefficient estimates. Certain factors relating to plume properties, derived using conditional sampling as described in Khalsa (1980), are shown to be related to the variance between the two estimates of friction velocity. An investigation into the effects of increasing the averaging time reveals that plume spacing, which is dependent on stability, and the mean wind speed determine the minimum time for smoothing the influence of plumes and downdrafts.Department of Atmospheric Sciences contribution number 513. 相似文献
6.
Comparison of observed gale radius statistics 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Summary Forecasts of tropical cyclone track and intensity have long been used to characterize the evolution and expected threat from
a tropical storm. However, in recent years, recognition of the contributions of subtropical cyclogenesis to tropical storm
formation and the process of extratropical transition to latter stages of the once-tropical storm’s lifecycle have raised
awareness about the importance of storm structure. Indeed, the structure of a cyclone determines the distribution and intensity
of the significant weather associated with that storm.
In this study, storm structure is characterized in terms of significant wind radii. The radii of tropical storm, damaging,
and hurricane-force winds, as well as the radius of maximum winds are all analyzed. These wind radii are objectively derived
from the H*Wind surface wind analysis system. Initially, six years of these data are examined for consistency with previous studies.
Having ascertained that the H*Wind radii are realistic, detailed comparisons are performed between the H*Wind and NHC Best Track wind radii for two years (2004 and 2005) of North Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane cases. This
intercomparison reveals an unexpected bias: the H*Wind radii are consistently larger than the NHC Best Track for all but the smallest and least intense storms.
Further examination of the objectively-determined H*Wind tropical storm force wind radius data compared to subjectively-determined radii for the same storm times demonstrates
that the objective wind radii are underestimating the extent of the tropical storm force wind area. Since the objective H*Wind radii are large compared to the NHC Best Track – and yet underestimate the area of tropical storm force winds – this
argues for further examination of the methods used to ascertain these significant wind radii. 相似文献
7.
Franklin B. Schwing 《大气与海洋》2013,51(1):157-180
Abstract Data collected during the Canadian Atlantic Storms Program (CASP) show subtidal variations in subsurface pressure (SSP) to be highly coherent throughout the Scotian Shelf region, and well correlated to fluctuations in the alongshelf component of wind stress (τy). Analysis using a frequency‐dependent multiple regression model verified that τy is the primary source of local forcing to the SSP field, although non‐locally generated variations in SSP are also important. The two components of local wind stress and a non‐local SSP term combine to explain over 90% of SSP variance on the Scotian Shelf. Statistical results describing the response to τy change dramatically depending upon the inclusion of non‐local forcing. In a model including both types of forcing, the SSP response to local forcing behaves like the solution to a dynamical model forced by time‐dependent wind stress with sea‐level prescribed to zero at the eastern cross‐shelf boundary. Local τy forcing becomes more effective to the west and onshore, whereas the phase suggests propagation to the west. The importance of τy is reduced at higher frequencies. Describing SSP with a statistical model containing local forcing alone may lead to an incorrect interpretation of SSP dynamics, particularly in the synoptic band where the wind variance is greatest. Energy originating from a non‐local source is most obvious at ω > 0.5 cpd and at locations on the eastern half of the shelf, but plays an important role at all sites and at all frequencies. These variations propagate to the west at speeds of 6.5 (ω < 0.2 cpd), 25–33 (0.2 cpd < ω < 0.5 cpd), and 12–17m s?1 (ω > 0.5 cpd). The exponential decay scales at all frequencies are ～900 km in the direction of phase propagation. The non‐local response is consistent with theoretical estimates of first‐ and second‐mode shelf waves for this region and represents the most direct evidence of shelf wave activity on the Scotian Shelf to date. 相似文献
8.
The effect of the high frequency (synoptic) variability of wind and heat fluxes upon the surface ocean off south-central Chile (west coast of South America) is investigated using a regional ocean model. We focus our analysis in austral summer, when the regional wind experiences significant day-to-day variability superimposed on a mean, upwelling favorable flow. To evaluate the nature and magnitude of these effects, we performed three identical simulations except for the surface forcing: the climatological run, with long-term monthly mean wind-stresses and heat fluxes; the wind-synoptic run, with daily wind stresses and climatological heat fluxes; and the full-synoptic run, with daily wind-stresses and daily fluxes. The mean currents and surface geostrophic EKE fields show no major differences between simulations, and agree well with those observed in this ocean area. Nevertheless, substantially more ageostrophic EKE is found in the simulations which include synoptic variability of wind-stresses, impacting the total surface EKE and diffusivities, particularly south of Punta Lavapie (37° S), where the lack of major currents implies low levels of geostrophic EKE. Summer mean SSTs are similar in all simulations and agree with observations, but SST variability along the coast is larger in the runs including wind-stress synoptic variability, suggesting a rather linear response of the ocean to cycles of southerly wind strengthening and relaxation. We found that coastal SST variability does not change significantly in the first tenths of kilometers from the shore when including daily heat fluxes, highlighting the prominent role of wind-driven upwelling cycles. In contrast, in the offshore region situated beyond the 50 km coastal strip, it is necessary to include synoptic variability in the heat fluxes to account for a realistic SST variability. 相似文献
9.
The characteristics of the atmospheric turbulent Ekman boundary layer have been qualitatively simulated in an annular rotating wind tunnel. Observed velocity spirals found to exist within the wind tunnel resembled qualitatively those found in the atmosphere in that a two-layer structure was evident, consisting of a log-linear portion topped by an outer spiral layer. The magnitude of the friction velocity u * obtained from the log-linear profile agreed with that measured directly, i.e., that obtained from the relation: u * = (u′w′)1/2. Also, the effects of surface roughness on the characteristics of the boundary layer agreed with expected results. In cases where the parametric behaviour predicted by theory departed from the observed behaviour, the probable cause was the inherent size limitations of the wind tunnel. The ability to maintain dynamic similarity is constrained by the limited radius of curvature of the wind tunnel. The vertical distribution of turbulent intensity in the wind tunnel was found to agree qualitatively with an observed atmospheric distribution. Also, a vertical distribution of eddy diffusivity was calculated from tunnel data and found to give qualitatively what one might expect in the atmosphere. 相似文献
10.
临界起沙阈值可表征地表土壤的可蚀性,是风蚀起沙研究中非常重要的物理量之一。基于微气象学方法,将沙尘浓度和垂直沙尘通量均开始增加且至少持续0.5 h所对应的摩擦速度(或风速)确定为临界起沙摩擦速度u*t(或临界起沙风速Ut)。利用内蒙古科尔沁沙地地区2010-2013年春季大气环境综合观测资料,分析了不同沙尘天气过程(扬沙、沙尘暴和强沙尘暴)起沙阶段沙尘浓度和垂直沙尘通量随摩擦速度的演变特征,精细确定了该地区临界起沙摩擦速度(u*t)和临界起沙风速(Ut)的范围分别为0.45±0.20和6.5±3.0 m/s,同时讨论了不同起沙判据对确定临界起沙阈值产生的影响。相比而言,采用的起沙判据尽可能地排除了沙尘输送和沉降过程的影响,适用于不同的沙尘天气类型,使沙尘粒子进入大气的起沙结果更趋于合理,其结果可为建立统一、合理的起沙判据提供参考。 相似文献
11.
Abstract Changes to the Beaufort Sea shoreline occur due to the impact of storms and rising relative sea level. During the open‐water season (June to October), storm winds predominantly from the north‐west generate waves and storm surges which are effective in eroding thawing ice‐rich cliffs and causing overwash of gravel beaches. Climate change is expected to be enhanced in Arctic regions relative to the global mean and include accelerated sea‐level rise, more frequent extreme storm winds, more frequent and extreme storm surge flooding, decreased sea‐ice extent, more frequent and higher waves, and increased temperatures. We investigate historical records of wind speeds and directions, water levels, sea‐ice extent and temperature to identify variability in past forcing and use the Canadian Global Coupled Model ensembles 1 and 2 (CGCM1 and CGCM2) climate modelling results to develop a scenario forcing future change of Beaufort Sea shorelines. This scenario and future return periods of peak storm wind speeds and water levels likely indicate increased forcing of coastal change during the next century resulting in increased rates of cliff erosion and beach migration, and more extreme flooding. 相似文献
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The effect of topographical slope angle and atmospheric stratification on turbulence intensities in the unstably stratified surface layer have been parameterized using observations obtained from a three-dimensional sonic anemometer installed at 8 m height above the ground at the Seoul National University (SNU) campus site in Korea for the years 1999–2001. Winds obtained from the sonic anemometer are analyzed according to the mean wind direction, since the topographical slope angle changes significantly along the azimuthal direction. The effects of the topographical slope angle and atmospheric stratification on surface-layer turbulence intensity are examined with these data. It is found that both the friction velocity and the variance for each component of wind normalized by the mean wind speed decrease with increase of the topographical slope angle, having a maximum decreasing rate at very unstable stratification. The decreasing rate of the normalized friction velocity (u
* /U) is found to be much larger than that of the turbulence intensity of each wind component due to the reduction of wind shear with increase in slope angle under unstable stratification. The decreasing rate of the w component of turbulence intensity (σ
w
/U) is the smallest over the downslope surface whereas that of the u component (σ
u
/U) has a minimum over the upslope surface. Consequently, σ
w
/u
* has a maximum increasing rate with increase in slope angle for the downslope wind, whereas σ
u
/u
* has its maximum for the upslope wind. The sloping terrain is found to reduce both the friction velocity and turbulence intensity compared with those on a flat surface. However, the reduction of the friction velocity over the sloping terrain is larger than that of the turbulence intensity, thereby enhancing the turbulence intensity normalized by the friction velocity over sloping terrain compared with that over a flat surface. 相似文献
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H. A. R. De Bruin W. M. L. Meijninger Ann-Sofi Smedman Mikael Magnusson 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2002,105(1):129-148
The friction velocity (u*) and the sensible heat flux density (H) determined with a displaced-beam small aperture scintillometer (DBSAS) and a hot-film eddy correlation system are compared. Random errors in the DBSAS are relatively small, compared to scatter found with two eddy-correlation systems. Assuming that the hot-film system yields the true fluxes, theDBSAS appears to overestimate u* when u* is less than 0.2 m s-1 and to underestimate u* at high wind speeds. This implies that the DBSAS measurements of theinner scale length of turbulence, l0, a direct measure for the dissipation rate of kinetic turbulent energy, are biased. Possible causes for these results are discussedin detail. A correction procedure is presented to account for effects of random noise and of so-called inactive turbulence or sensor vibrations. The errors in u* cause errors in the DBSAS measurements of the structure parameter of temperature CT
2. The derived H appears to be less sensitive to errors in l0 and CT
2, because errors in these quantities tend to cancel out. 相似文献
14.
In this paper we study the effect of atmospheric stability on the growth of surface gravity waves. To that end we numerically solved the Taylor-Goldstein equation for wind profiles which deviate from a logarithmic form because stratification affects the turbulent momentum transport. Using Charnock's relation for the roughness height z
0 of the wind profile, it is argued that the growth rate of the wave depends on the dimensionless phase velocity c/u
* (where u
* is the friction velocity) and a measure of the effect of atmospheric stability, namely the dimensionless Obukhov length gL/u
*
2, whereas it only depends weakly on gz
t
/u
*
2 (where z
t
is the roughness height of the temperature profile). Remarkably for a given value of u
*
/c, the growth rate is larger for a stable stratification (L > 0) than for an unstable one (L < 0). We explain why this is the case. If, on the other hand, one considers the growth rate as a function of c/U
10 (where U
10 is the windspeed at 10 m), the situation reverses for c/U
10 < 1. For practical application in wave prediction models, we propose a new parameterization of the growth rate of the waves which is an improvement of the Snyder et al. (1981) proposal because the effect of stability is taken into account. 相似文献
15.
Edgar L. Andreas 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2011,141(3):333-347
A common parametrization over snow-covered surfaces that are undergoing saltation is that the aerodynamic roughness length
for wind speed (z
0) scales as au*2/g{\alpha u_\ast^2/g}, where u
* is the friction velocity, g is the acceleration of gravity, and α is an empirical constant. Data analyses seem to support this scaling: many published plots of z
0 measured over snow demonstrate proportionality to u*2{u_\ast^2 }. In fact, I show similar plots here that are based on two large eddy-covariance datasets: one collected over snow-covered
Arctic sea ice; another collected over snow-covered Antarctic sea ice. But in these and in most such plots from the literature,
the independent variable, u
*, was used to compute z
0 in the first place; the plots thus suffer from fictitious correlation that causes z
0 to unavoidably increase with u
* without any intervening physics. For these two datasets, when I plot z
0 against u
* derived from a bulk flux algorithm—and thus minimize the fictitious correlation—z
0 is independent of u
* in the drifting snow region, u
* ≥ 0.30 ms−1. I conclude that the relation z0 = au*2/g{z_0 = \alpha u_\ast^2/g} when snow is drifting is a fallacy fostered by analyses that suffer from fictitious correlation. 相似文献
16.
T. Dharmaraj G. R. Chinthalu P. Ernest Raj 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2009,104(1-2):113-123
A land surface processes experiment (LASPEX) was conducted in the semi-arid region of Northwest India during January 1997–February 1998. Analysis of turbulent components of wind and air temperature collected in the surface layer (SL) at Anand (22°35′N, 72°55′E) during the Indian summer monsoon season from June to September 1997 is presented. Turbulent fluctuation of wind components and air temperature observed at Anand varied as a function of terrain features and stability of the surface layer. Under neutral conditions, the standard deviation of vertical velocity (σ w ) and temperature (σ T ) were normalized using respective surface layer scaling parameter u * and T * which fitted the expressions σ w /u * = 1.25 and σ T /T * ≈ 4. Micrometeorological spectrum of wind and temperature at 5 m above ground level (AGL) at Anand showed peaks at time scale of 1–3 min at the low-frequency end. The inertial sub-range characteristics (?2/3 slope) of the spectrum are exhibited mostly. However, in some occasions, slope of ?1 denoting brown noise was depicted by the wind and temperature spectrum, which indicated anisotropy in turbulence. 相似文献
17.
John L. Walmsley 《大气与海洋》2013,51(2):203-233
Abstract In October 1985, the Boundary‐Layer Research Division of the Atmospheric Environment Service conducted an experiment on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, where 10‐m wind measurements were made at a number of locations. Wind data were also collected at 4 levels on one of the 10‐m masts and at 6 levels on a 26‐m mast, both located on the South Beach. Other data used in the present study consisted of air temperature measured at 9 m and sea temperature measured at the beach. The theory for wind speed and temperature profiles over the sea is reviewed. A method of deriving over‐sea profile parameters (u*, θ*, Z0, L) from wind data at one level and the air‐sea temperature difference is described. The method is limited to applications either over homogeneous open ocean or, provided measurements are taken above the internal boundary layer generated by the change of roughness at the coastline, over a flat beach (without coastal orography). The heights at which the method is applied must be within the surface layer which must not have any discontinuities in wind speed or temperature in the vertical, such as are often associated with inversion layers. An application to data collected at beach sites in onshore flow during the October 1985 experiment is illustrated. Once the above parameters are obtained, theoretical wind profiles may be computed and compared with observed profiles. In order to make a proper comparison it is essential to account for internal boundary layers generated at the shoreline by the step‐change in surface roughness. Only the data measured above the internal boundary layer are representative of over‐sea conditions and may, therefore, be used for verifying the theoretical profiles. The agreement between calculated and measured data is generally very good. One complication, however, is a slight upstream‐blockage effect due to a 7‐m high dune located about 140 m downwind of the 26‐m mast. Estimates of the magnitude of this effect partially account for small discrepancies in the results at the 26‐ and 10‐m mast locations. An estimation of the most probable errors in the calculated parameters, based on assumed measurement errors, is included in the computer program. Results suggest that small measurement errors can explain the above discrepancies. 相似文献
18.
Displaced-Beam Small Aperture Scintillometer Test. Part Ii: Cases-99 Stable Boundary-Layer Experiment 总被引：3，自引：3，他引：0
O. K. Hartogensis H. A. R. De Bruin B. J. H. Van De Wiel 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2002,105(1):149-176
The performance of the Scintec displaced-beam small aperture scintillometer (DBSAS) in the stable boundary layer (SBL) is investigated using data gathered during the CASES-99 experiment in Kansas, U.S.A. The DBSAS is superior to the eddy-covariance method in determining vertical fluxes of sensible heat and momentumclose to the ground and/or over short (< 1 min) averaging intervals. Both aspects are of importance in the shallow and non-stationary SBL.The friction velocity, u*, the temperature scale, *, and from these the sensible heat flux, H, were calculated from the indirectly determined dissipation rate, , and the structure parameter of temperature, CT
2, by the DBSAS, which was operated over a path length of 112 m. All these variables are compared with eddy-covariance data for 10-minute time averages. Previously reported systematic errors in the DBSAS, overestimation of u* for low u* values and underestimation of u* for high u* values, have in part been dealt with by adjusting the beam displacement distance from 2.7 mm to 2.6 mm in the calculations. The latter adjustment is presented as a working hypothesis, not a general solution. 相似文献
19.
Methods for calculating, interpolating and idealising air flow in complex terrain are reviewed. Then the general structure of stratified airflow over a single hill of height H and length L1 is studied in detail and shown to be determined by the upwind velocity profile, the magnitude of a characteristic Froude number and the dimensions of the hill. Let N(L1) be the buoyancy frequency upwind at a height L1, and u* and U0 be the upwind friction and mean velocity respectively; then the flow is effectively neutral if u*/NL1>1. But if u*/NL1>1 and u0/NL1>1, the stratification is weak enough to affect the upwind turbulence and velocity profile but not the dynamics of the flow over the hill. If U0/NL1 <1 but U0/NH>1 the buoyancy forces are strong enough to affect the mean flow over the hill but not strong enough to prevent it passing over the top. In this regime the flow is very sensitive to the form of the upwind temperature profile. If U0/NH>1, much of the flow passes round the hill. A similar classification, with different flow patterns, is appropriate for unstably stratified flows. When the wind is weak enough, local slope winds can dominate. Results from the analysis of these different regimes are described and compared with laboratory of field measurements where possible. It is shown how some of these results can be extended to groups of hills. 相似文献
20.
Data collected during the Indo-Soviet Monsoon-77 expedition are used to determine quadratic expressions for the universal constants A and B, as functions of the stability parameter, . A quadratic expression has also been obtained for u
*, in terms of the surface wind u
s. It is shown, from the mean values of q and
E
, that the entire area covered by the expedition could be divided into four regions around the point 13° N, 78° E. The mean thermal characteristic of each region differs. It is shown that the northeastern quadrant is most favourable for the sustenance of a tropical storm once it has formed. 相似文献