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Andrey A. Grachev P. Ola G. Persson Edgar L. Andreas Peter S. Guest 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2005,116(2):201-235
Turbulent and mean meteorological data collected at five levels on a 20-m tower over the Arctic pack ice during the Surface
Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA) are analyzed to examine different regimes of the stable boundary layer
(SBL). Eleven months of measurements during SHEBA cover a wide range of stability conditions, from the weakly unstable regime
to very stable stratification. Scaling arguments and our analysis show that the SBL can be classified into four major regimes:
(i) surface-layer scaling regime (weakly stable case), (ii) transition regime, (iii) turbulent Ekman layer, and (iv) intermittently
turbulent Ekman layer (supercritical stable regime). These four regimes may be considered as the basic states of the traditional
SBL. Sometimes these regimes, especially the last two, can be markedly perturbed by gravity waves, detached elevated turbulence
(‘upside down SBL’), and inertial oscillations. Traditional Monin–Obukhov similarity theory works well in the weakly stable
regime. In the transition regime, Businger–Dyer formulations work if scaling variables are re-defined in terms of local fluxes,
although stability function estimates expressed in these terms include more scatter compared to the surface-layer scaling.
As stability increases, the near-surface turbulence is affected by the turning effects of the Coriolis force (the turbulent
Ekman layer). In this regime, the surface layer, where the turbulence is continuous, may be very shallow (< 5 m). Turbulent
transfer near the critical Richardson number is characterized by small but still significant heat flux and negligible stress.
The supercritical stable regime, where the Richardson number exceeds a critical value, is associated with collapsed turbulence
and the strong influence of the earth’s rotation even near the surface. In the limit of very strong stability, the stress
is no longer a primary scaling parameter. 相似文献
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Radiative Processes in the Stable Boundary Layer: Part II. The Development of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
J. M. Edwards 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2009,131(2):127-146
The interaction between radiation and turbulence in the stable boundary layer over land is explored using an idealized model,
with a focus on the surface layer after the evening transition. It is shown that finer vertical resolution is required in
transitional boundary layers than in developed ones. In very light winds radiative cooling determines the temperature profile,
even if similarity functions without a critical Richardson number are used; standard surface similarity theory applied over
thick layers then yields poor forecasts of near-surface air temperatures. These points are illustrated with field data. Simulations
of the developing nocturnal boundary layer are used to explore the wider role of radiation. Comparatively, radiation is less
significant within the developed stable boundary layer than during the transition; although, as previous studies have found,
it remains important towards the top of the stable layer and in the residual layer. Near the ground, reducing the surface
emissivity below one is found to yield modest relative radiative warming rather than intense cooling, which reduces the potential
importance of radiation in the developed surface layer. The profile of the radiative heating rate may be strongly dependent
on other processes, leading to quite varied behaviour. 相似文献
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Nocturnal Boundary-Layer Regimes 总被引：17，自引：6，他引：11
L. Mahrt 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1998,88(2):255-278
This study analyzes turbulence data collected over a grassland site in the nocturnal boundary layer. Examination of the dependence of the nocturnal boundary layer on stability suggests three regimes: a) the weakly stable case, b) a transition stability regime where many of the variables change rapidly with increasing stability and c) the very stable case. The value of z/L where the downward heat flux is a maximum defines the stability boundary between the weakly stable and transition regimes, where L is the Obukhov length. In the present analysis, the downward heat flux reaches a maximum at z/L approximately equal to 0.05 for 10 m, although comparison with other data indicates that this is not a universal value. For weaker stability, the heat flux decreases with decreasing z/L due to weaker temperature fluctuations. In the transition stability regime, the heat flux decreases rapidly with increasing stability due to restriction of vertical velocity fluctuations by the increasing stratification.For weakly stable conditions, the variances scale according to Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. For very stable conditions, the variances are contaminated by non-turbulent horizontal motions and do not follow the scaling laws. An alternative length scale based on variances is developed which explains more of the variance of the transfer coefficients compared to the Obukhov length. 相似文献
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Extremely Weak Mixing in Stable Conditions 总被引：1，自引：2，他引：1
Transport by extremely weak turbulence occurring on nights with clear skies and weak winds is examined from seven tower levels
of eddy-correlation data taken from each of two field programs. The very small flux is systematic, provided that the perturbations
are computed from a record-dependent averaging length, which must be as small as 10 s in very stable conditions. With traditional
methods for computing the flux, these fluxes were considered too small to estimate, in that the computed values behaved erratically.
For extremely weak turbulence, the fluxes decrease systematically with height and often indicate very shallow boundary-layer
depths on the order of 10 m. However, in one field program, the turbulence slowly increases with height above the surface
flux-based boundary layer apparently due to horizontal advection of stronger turbulence driven by modest surface heterogeneity.
For very weak turbulence, the eddy diffusivity for momentum is systematically greater than that for heat in both field programs.
The dependence of the turbulence strength and its variability with stability is examined in some detail. 相似文献
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Contrasting vertical structures of nocturnal boundary layers 总被引：1，自引：2，他引：1
This study analyzes eight levels of sonic anemometerdata collected on a 60-m towerduring CASES-99, toward the goal of understanding thevertical structure of thenocturnal boundary layer. Several different regimesare found. Thin boundarylayers are often observed where fluxes decrease with height and approximately vanish between 20 and 30 m aboveground. The flow above the thin boundary layeraccelerates and increasing shear oftengenerates significant turbulence in the middle ofthe night. Thisshear-generated turbulence is often stronger thanthat near the surface corresponding to an upside-downboundary layer. During these conditions,the turbulent transport of turbulence is downwardtoward the surface. The turbulence in this regimeshows features of z-less turbulence to the extentthat neither the height above groundnor the boundary-layer depth are primary scalingvariables. This layer isdifferent from a `residual layer' in thatturbulence is actively generated byshear associated with nocturnal accelerationsand often is stronger than that inthe surface-based boundary layer.In many cases, the turbulence does not varysignificantly across the towerlayer, implying that the boundary layer ismuch deeper than the 60-m towerlayer. Several case studies are presentedto illustrate the largevariation of vertical structure betweennights. 相似文献
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Ralph C. Foster 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2009,131(3):321-344
We present similarity solutions for the mean boundary-layer profiles under an axisymmetric vortex that is in gradient wind
balance; the similarity model includes the nonlinear momentum advection and curvature terms. These solutions are a generalization
of the Ekman layer mean flow, which is the canonical boundary-layer basic state under a uniform, geostrophically-balanced
flow. Near-surface properties such as inflow angle, surface wind factor, diffusive transport of kinetic energy into the surface
layer and dissipational heating are calculated and shown to be sensitive to the choice of turbulence parameterization. 相似文献
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夜间近地面稳定边界层湍流间歇与增温 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1
在夜间晴空条件下，近地面大气湍流表现出很强的间歇性，这种间歇现象导致夜间气温短时的急剧下降，随后大幅度增温。近地面大幅度增温表明此时存在着很大的湍流热通量散度，常通量层的概念这时不存在。从各高度层温度和风速变化的曲线上分析，我们发现湍流大多在距离地面较高一点的高度上发生发展，然后向下层传递，尽管上层的湍流可能是由于下层的某一触发机制向上传递而引起的。湍流偶尔也出现自下向上传递的过程，但这一过程较少发生。湍流的这种上下传递说明稳定边界层大气经常处于非平衡状态，在运用相似理论研究稳定边界层大气结构时要特别注意这一情形。 相似文献
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Observations obtained over a glacier surface in a predominantlykatabatic flow and with a distinctwind maximum below 13-m height are presented. The data werecollected using a 13-m high profilemast and two sonic anemometers (at about 2.5-m and 10-m heights).The spectra at frequencies belowthat of the turbulence range appear to deviate considerably fromthe curves obtained by Kaimal andco-workers during the 1968 Kansas experiment. The characteristicsof these deviations are compared tothe observations of others in surface-layers disturbed by anykind of large-scale outer-layer (orinactive) turbulence. In our case the disturbances arelikely to be induced by the highmountain ridges that surround the glacier. Moreover, the deviationsobserved in the cospectra seemto result from an, as yet, unspecified interaction between theinactive outer-layer turbulenceand the local surface-layer turbulence. Near the distinctwind maximum turbulence production ceasedwhile turbulence itself did not, probably the result ofturbulence transport from other levels. Consequently, we studied thelocal similarity relations using w instead of u* as an alternative velocity scale. Wellbelow the wind maximum, and for relatively low stability(0< Rig <0.2), the flow behaves accordingto well established local-scaling similarity relationshipsin the stable boundary layer. For higherstability (Rig > 0.2), and near or above the wind maximum, the boundary-layer structure conforms tothat of z-less stratification suggesting that the eddy sizeis restricted by the local stability ofthe flow. In line with this we observed that the sensibleheat fluxes relate remarkably well to thelocal flow parameters. 相似文献
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K. G. Mcnaughton 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2006,118(1):83-107
We present a new account of the kinetic energy budget within an unstable atmospheric surface layer (ASL) beneath a convective
outer layer. It is based on the structural model of turbulence introduced by McNaughton (Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 112:
199–221, 2004). In this model the turbulence is described as a self-organizing system with a highly organized structure that
resists change by instability. This system is driven from above, with both the mean motion and the large-scale convective
motions of the outer layer creating shear across the surface layer. The outer convective motions thus modulate the turbulence
processes in the surface layer, causing variable downwards fluxes of momentum and kinetic energy. The variable components
of the momentum flux sum to zero, but the associated energy divergence is cumulative, increasing both the average kinetic
energy of the turbulence in the surface layer and the rate at which that energy is dissipated. The tendency of buoyancy to
preferentially enhance the vertical motions is opposed by pressure reaction forces, so pressure production, which is the work
done against these reaction forces, exactly equals buoyant production of kinetic energy. The pressure potential energy that
is produced is then redistributed throughout the layer through many conversions, back and forth, between pressure potential
and kinetic energy with zero sums. These exchanges generally increase the kinetic energy of the turbulence, the rate at which
turbulence transfers momentum and the rate at which it dissipates energy, but does not alter its overall structure. In this
model the velocity scale for turbulent transport processes in the surface layer is (kzɛ)1/3 rather than the friction velocity, u*. Here k is the von Kármán constant, z is observation height, ɛ is the dissipation rate. The model agrees very well with published experimental results, and provides
the foundation for the new similarity model of the unstable ASL, replacing the older Monin–Obukhov similarity theory, whose
assumptions are no longer tenable. 相似文献