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We describe in this paper the development of a double-moment modelof blowing snow and its application to the Canadian Arctic. Wefirst outline the formulation of the numerical model, whichsolves a prognostic equation for both the blowing snow mixingratio and total particle numbers, both moments of particles thatare gamma-distributed. Under idealized simulations, the modelyields realistic evolutions of the blowing snow particledistributions, transport and sublimation rates as well as the thermodynamic fields at low computational costs. A parametrizationof the blowing snow sublimation rate is subsequently derived. The model and parametrization are then applied to a Canadian Arctictundra site prone to frequent blowing snow events. Over a period of210 days during the winter of 1996/1997, the near-surfacerelative humidity consistently approaches saturationwith respect to ice. These conditions limit snowpack erosion byblowing snow sublimation to 3 mm snow water equivalent (swe)with surface sublimation removing an additional 7 mm swe.We find that our results are highly sensitiveto the proper assimilation of the humidity measurements and the evolving thermodynamic fields in the atmospheric boundary layer during blowingsnow. These factors may explain the lower values of blowing snow sublimationreported in this paper than previously published for the region. 相似文献
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An Intercomparison Among Four Models Of Blowing Snow 总被引：4，自引：3，他引：1
Jingbing Xiao Richard Bintanja Stephen J. Déry Graham W. Mann Peter A. Taylor 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2000,97(1):109-135
Four one-dimensional, time-dependent blowing snow models areintercompared. These include three spectral models, PIEKTUK-T,WINDBLAST, SNOWSTORM, and the bulk version of PIEKTUK-T,PIEKTUK-B. Although the four models are based on common physicalconcepts, they have been developed by different research groups. Thestructure of the models, numerical methods, meteorological field treatmentand the parameterization schemes may be different. Under an agreed standardcondition, the four models generally give similar results for the thermodynamic effects of blowing snow sublimation on the atmospheric boundary layer, including an increase of relative humidity and a decrease of the ambient temperature due to blowing snow sublimation. Relative humidity predicted by SNOWSTORM is lower than the predictions of the other models, which leads to a larger sublimation rate in SNOWSTORM. All four models demonstrate that sublimation rates in a column of blowing snow have a single maximum in time, illustrating self-limitation of the sublimation process of blowing snow. However, estimation of the eddy diffusioncoefficient for momentum (Km), and thereby the diffusion coefficients for moisture (Kw) and for heat (Kh), has a significant influence on the process. Sensitivitytests with PIEKTUK-T show that the sublimation rate can be approximately constant with time after an initial phase, if Km is a linear function with height. In order to match the model results with blowing snow observations, some parameters in the standard run, such as settling velocity of blowing snow particles in these models, may need to be changed to more practical values. 相似文献
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Variations in wind speed and air temperature during blowing snow are considered in detail using data from the Canadian weather observation network with high spatiotemporal resolution. It is revealed that blowing snow considerably affects the lower atmospheric layer regime. The analysis of observational data illustrates the fact of wind speed increase during the snowstorm. The local minima of air temperature during the period of blowing snow are identified. The method is determined for calculating the threshold wind speed that provokes the onset of blowing snow. The highest skill scores were obtained for the method which takes into account air temperature and humidity. 相似文献
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A Bulk Blowing Snow Model 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
We present in this paper a simple and computationally efficient numerical model that depicts a column of sublimating, blowing snow. This bulk model predicts the mixing ratio of suspended snow by solving an equation that considers the diffusion, settling and sublimation of blowing snow in a time-dependent mode. The bulk model results compare very well with those of a previous spectral version of the model, while increasing its computational efficiency by a factor of about one hundred. This will allow the use of the model to estimate the effects of blowing snow upon the atmospheric boundary layer and to the mass balance of such regions as the Mackenzie River Basin of Canada. 相似文献
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利用青海省甘德两次降雪过程的微气象观测数据,探讨了两场降雪过程雪深、雪密度、雪中含冰量、雪中含水量和雪面温度的变化情况,分析了地表反照率与雪密度、雪中含冰量及雪中含水量的关系,结合降雪过程近地面温、湿、风廓线特征分析了积雪对近地面温、湿、风梯度的影响。结果表明:积雪覆盖会导致地表反照率显著增加,降雪过后正午时地表反照率可高达0.8～0.9。随着积雪的消融,地表反照率逐渐减小;积雪反照率与雪密度和雪中含冰量呈正相关,与雪中含水量呈负相关;地表积雪覆盖会导致近地面温度梯度绝对值减小,相对湿度梯度绝对值在凌晨减小、午后增大,地表积雪覆盖对近地面风速梯度变化并无特定的影响。 相似文献
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Extraordinary blowing snow transport events in East Antarctica 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Claudio Scarchilli Massimo Frezzotti Paolo Grigioni Lorenzo De Silvestri Lucia Agnoletto Stefano Dolci 《Climate Dynamics》2010,34(7-8):1195-1206
In the convergence slope/coastal areas of Antarctica, a large fraction of snow is continuously eroded and exported by wind to the atmosphere and into the ocean. Snow transport observations from instruments and satellite images were acquired at the wind convergence zone of Terra Nova Bay (East Antarctica) throughout 2006 and 2007. Snow transport features are well-distinguished in satellite images and can extend vertically up to 200 m as first-order quantitatively estimated by driftometer sensor FlowCapt?. Maximum snow transportation occurs in the fall and winter seasons. Snow transportation (drift/blowing) was recorded for ~80% of the time, and 20% of time recorded, the flux is >10?2 kg m?2 s?1 with particle density increasing with height. Cumulative snow transportation is ~4 orders of magnitude higher than snow precipitation at the site. An increase in wind speed and transportation (~30%) was observed in 2007, which is in agreement with a reduction in observed snow accumulation. Extensive presence of ablation surface (blue ice and wind crust) upwind and downwind of the measurement site suggest that the combine processes of blowing snow sublimation and snow transport remove up to 50% of the precipitation in the coastal and slope convergence area. These phenomena represent a major negative effect on the snow accumulation, and they are not sufficiently taken into account in studies of surface mass balance. The observed wind-driven ablation explains the inconsistency between atmospheric model precipitation and measured snow accumulation value. 相似文献
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R. A. Schmidt 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1982,23(2):223-246
To estimate the sublimation rate of snow during relocation by wind, sizes and concentration of ice crystal fragments were measured at 6 levels in the lowest 1 m, during ten 10-min runs, in a nocturnal blizzard. Power-law functions of height described the decrease in mean particle diameter and concentration. The vertical gradient of water vapor, measured with a thermocouple psychrometer, was approximately linear from 0.2 to 1.0m above the surface. Evaporation of blowing snow over 3 km of transport distance was estimated to be 39% of transport rate, under conditions of the experiment. 相似文献
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J. P. Gosink 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1989,49(4):367-394
A density current model was extended for use in katabatic flow over the steep slopes of Antarctica through the inclusion of the Coriolis effect and weight flux terms corresponding to blowing snow and cooling caused by sublimation. The model was calibrated and tested against data obtained during two flights in Adelie Land, Antarctica, along a trajectory starting about 170 km inland and extending to Dumont d'Urville. The predicted trend in water vapor flux agrees with measurements of this flux, lending support to empirical formulae for both snow flux and sublimation rate. Model predictions of velocity were in good agreement with measured quantities when reasonable estimates of radiation divergence and surface heat exchange were provided as input to the model. The potential temperature gradient above the katabatic layer was found to play a major role in flow stability for high velocity and deep katabatic flows. Velocity predictions were in better agreement with the data when a locally determined value was used for the coefficient in the empirical snow flux expression. 相似文献
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S. C. Colbeck 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1988,44(1-2):1-12
Profiles of temperature and humidity are calculated for a snow surface being cooled by outgoing radiation assuming no wind. These suggest that fog would necessarily form to block the cooling and, even in the absence of fog, the diffusion of water vapor to the surface could not account for observed rates of surface hoar growth. Therefore turbulent transfer to an interfacial sublayer with a very large temperature gradient must occur at least intermittently. In mountainous areas, gravity drainage of air over the interfacial sublayer probably accounts for the turbulence since air currents from a regional pressure gradient appear to transfer enough heat to the surface to prevent surface hoar growth. The vapor must diffuse through a 1 mm interfacial sublayer until the crystals reach a sufficient height to interact with the drainage wind. 相似文献
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利用2009年3月-2010年3月大同国家基准气候站20m气象梯度塔的风向、风速、气温、相对湿度的观测资料及PM10质量浓度数据、气溶胶散射系数数据,分析大同地区典型沙尘天气过程近地层气象要素演变特征。结果表明,风速在沙尘暴、扬沙的发生、发展过程中均较大,浮尘较小。气温在沙尘暴期间受冷空气的影响迅速减小,而在扬沙和浮尘天气条件下温度的变化主要取决于长短波辐射的强弱和沙尘气溶胶的辐射强迫。相对湿度在沙尘暴期间基本上呈递增态势,结束后比发生前相对湿度增大,在扬沙和浮尘天气条件下,相对湿度与温度完全呈现出反相关关系,且相对湿度均较小。PM10质量浓度在沙尘暴、扬沙、浮尘天气条件下依次递减。沙尘暴期间气溶胶散射系数明显增大。 相似文献
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The sublimation of falling snow may be an important component of the atmospheric water budget of the Mackenzie River Basin and many parts of the Arctic. To investigate this issue, a simple sublimation model is used along with surface precipitation observations and sonde data obtained during the autumn 1994 Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment (BASE). Model results are then compared with actual precipitation measurements at Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, sites in Northern Canada, to approximate mass loss due to sublimation. The sublimation results are found to vary in concert with cloud base height, precipitation intensity aloft and the nature of the precipitation. Atmospheric conditions are furthermore examined over a wide range of the Arctic, especially the Mackenzie River Basin, to assess to what degree the results can be generalized. The presence of a relatively dry near-surface layer, a favourable environment for sublimation, is a key feature of most sites during the early autumn storm period. Estimates of sublimational mass losses are found over Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk using sonde derived cloud base heights and temperature and humidity profiles. Sublimation losses for such sites are found to be of the order of 40–60%, which shows that sublimation is indeed a significant process over the Mackenzie Basin and needs to be well handled in climate models. However, increasing the vertical resolution of the sublimation model to that of climate scales can dramatically affect predicted sublimation amounts; how to properly account for sublimation then remains a difficult task. 相似文献
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Modelling the influence of snow accumulation and snow-ice formation on the seasonal cycle of the Antarctic sea-ice cover 总被引：5，自引：5，他引：0
Recent observational and numerical studies of the maritime snow cover in the Antarctic suggest that snow on top of sea ice
plays a major role in shaping the seasonal growth and decay of the ice pack in the Southern Ocean. Here, we make a quantitative
assessment of the importance of snow accumulation in controlling the seasonal cycle of the ice cover with a coupled snow–sea-ice–upper-ocean
model. The model takes into account snow and ice sublimation and snow deposition by condensation. A parametrisation of the
formation of snow ice (ice resulting from the freezing of a mixture of snow and seawater produced by flooding of the ice floes)
is also included. Experiments on the sensitivity of the snow–sea-ice system to variations in the sublimation/condensation
rate, the precipitation rate, and the amount of snowfall transported by the wind into leads are discussed. Although we focus
on the model response in the Southern Hemisphere, results for the Arctic are also discussed in some cases to highlight the
relative importance of the processes under study in both hemispheres. It is found that the snow loss by sublimation can account
for the removal of 0.45 m of snow per year in the Antarctic and that this loss significantly affects the total volume of snow
ice. A precipitation decrease of 50% is conducive to large reductions in the Antarctic snow and snow-ice volumes, but it leads
only to an 8% decrease in the annual mean ice volume. The Southern Ocean ice pack is more sensitive to increases in precipitation.
For precipitation rates 1.5 times larger than the control ones, the annual mean snow, ice, and snow-ice volumes augment by
30, 20, and 180%, respectively. It is also found that the transfer to the ocean of as much as 50% of the precipitating snow
as a result of wind transport has almost negligible effects on the total ice volume. All the experiments exhibit a marked
geographical contrast in the ice-cover response, with a much larger sensitivity in the western sector of the Southern Ocean
than in the eastern sector. Our results suggest that snow-related processes are of secondary importance for determining the
sensitivity of the Arctic sea ice to environmental changes but that these processes could have an important part to play in
the response of the Antarctic sea-ice cover to future, or current, climatic changes.
Received: 30 June 1997/Accepted: 2 October 1998 相似文献
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利用四川省1981—2013年雾、轻雾、吹雪、雪暴、烟幕、霾、沙尘暴、扬沙和浮尘9种视程障碍天气现象资料,对其发生日数、发生概率和分布特征进行统计。结果表明:(1)各天气现象发生日数排序为:轻雾>雾>浮尘>霾>烟幕>扬沙>沙尘暴>吹雪>雪暴。(2)轻雾和雾年发生日数为分别为176d/a和29d/a,日发生概率分别为48%和8%,远高出其他天气现象。(3)季节变化方面,雾和轻雾主要出现在秋季和冬季;霾、吹雪和雪暴集中出现在冬季;浮尘发生春季;扬沙多发生在冬季和春季;而沙尘暴、烟幕主要发生在春季和秋季。(4)变化趋势上轻雾基本保持平稳;烟幕呈增加趋势;而雾、霾、沙尘暴、扬沙和浮尘呈下降趋势。(5)大气层结稳定、水汽充足、风速较小、人口集中和排放量较大,易于盆地雾、轻雾、霾和烟幕的形成;不合理利用水和土地资源,北方地区沙尘天气随冷空气南下,是沙尘天气发生的重要原因;而吹雪和雪暴均发生在冬季降雪量大且风速较大的川西高原。 相似文献
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赵广娜 《沙漠与绿洲气象(新疆气象)》2013,7(3):71-74
摘要：本文选取累积降雪量、最大日降雪量、连续降雪日数、积雪深度、日最低气温、日最大风速和日最小相对湿度7个气象因子构成城市雪灾气象指数。通过对城市雪灾气象指数的范围划分,得到从低到高的5级城市雪灾气象等级,并给出等级描述及可能影响。 相似文献
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赵广娜 《沙漠与绿洲气象(新疆气象)》2013,7(5):71-74
选取累积降雪量、最大日降雪量、连续降雪日数、积雪深度、日最低气温、日最大风速和日最小相对湿度7个气象因子构成城市雪灾气象指数。通过对城市雪灾气象指数的范围划分,得到从低到高的5级城市雪灾气象等级,并给出等级描述及可能影响。 相似文献
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Hubert Gall��e Alexandre Trouvilliez C��cile Agosta Christophe Genthon Vincent Favier Florence Naaim-Bouvet 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2013,146(1):133-147
For the first time a simulation of blowing snow events was validated in detail using one-month long observations (January 2010) made in Adélie Land, Antarctica. A regional climate model featuring a coupled atmosphere/blowing snow/snowpack model is forced laterally by meteorological re-analyses. The vertical grid spacing was 2 m from 2 to 20 m above the surface and the horizontal grid spacing was 5?km. The simulation was validated by comparing the occurrence of blowing snow events and other meteorological parameters at two automatic weather stations. The Nash test allowed us to compute efficiencies of the simulation. The regional climate model simulated the observed wind speed with a positive efficiency (0.69). Wind speeds higher than 12 m s ?1 were underestimated. Positive efficiency of the simulated wind speed was a prerequisite for validating the blowing snow model. Temperatures were simulated with a slightly negative efficiency (?0.16) due to overestimation of the amplitude of the diurnal cycle during one week, probably because the cloud cover was underestimated at that location during the period concerned. Snowfall events were correctly simulated by our model, as confirmed by field reports. Because observations suggested that our instrument (an acoustic sounder) tends to overestimate the blowing snow flux, data were not sufficiently accurate to allow the complete validation of snow drift values. However, the simulation of blowing snow occurrence was in good agreement with the observations made during the first 20 days of January 2010, despite the fact that the blowing snow flux may be underestimated by the regional climate model during pure blowing snow events. We found that blowing snow occurs in Adélie Land only when the 30-min wind speed value at 2 m a.g.l. is >10 m s ?1. The validation for the last 10 days of January 2010 was less satisfactory because of complications introduced by surface melting and refreezing. 相似文献
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利用三维完全弹性积云数值模式,模拟了1998年7月21日武汉暴雨期间强降水积云的发生、发展过程.着重分析了积云动力学特征以及近地层散度场、水汽通量等对积云降水的发展、维持的贡献.结果表明,特殊的温、湿层结配置是这次强降水对流云发生的主要原因,而近地层高温、高湿气体源源不断地向云体输送,是强降水积云长时间维持的能量来源.合适的上下层风切变,特别是近地层逆向云体风速的存在,使得云体移动前方下层高温、高湿气体向云内输送,云后部伴随降雨而出现的干冷出流迅速流出,上层高空急流的存在,为积云顶部出流在更大范围扩散提供了条件.散度场、水汽通量场的分布及演变,也进一步证明了上述结论. 相似文献
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大气红外探测器(AIRS)温、湿度反演产品的有效性检验及在数值模式中的应用研究 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
利用中国540个地面气象观测站点资料,对1和7月大气红外探测器(AIRS)的反演中国区域地面气温精度做了详细评估,分析了产生误差的原因。同时把AIRS的反演温、湿度廓线产品与T213数值预报产品进行比较,分析了它们之间的差异。为进一步考察AIRS温、湿度产品的有效性,我们把经过订正的AIRS地面气温以及温、湿度廓线产品分析同化到中尺度模式MM5中,用于华北降雪天气过程的对比模拟试验,分析AIRS反演产品对降雪量、水汽场、垂直速度场、散度场以及云物理过程等的影响。 相似文献
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利用1951—2005年辽宁省沿海轻工业城市营口和重工业城市鞍山的气温、降水、云量、相对湿度及平均风速等气候资料,采用对比分析方法,分析了近55 a来2城市的各类气候变化特征及产生的原因。结果表明:近55 a来营口和鞍山平均气温呈递增趋势,降水、总云量、平均风速和相对湿度均呈递减趋势,只有低云量变化趋势不同,其中营口呈递增趋势,鞍山呈递减趋势,鞍山平均气温递增趋势及总云量、平均风速和相对湿度递减趋势均强于营口同类气候要素变化;营口和鞍山城市平均气温、相对湿度、低云量和风力气候要素特征趋势变率较大,降水和总云量趋势变率相对较小。 相似文献
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Richard Essery 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2001,100(1):131-147
A linear theory is used to model windflow over a tundra landscape, taken as an example of complex topography. The autocorrelation between gradients at different points in this landscape has an exponential dependence on separation, characterized by a correlation length. Areal variances of simulated windspeeds are proportional to the variance of the topographic gradient. Simulations with synthetic topographies having the same correlation structure show that the constants of proportionality in these relationships depend on the correlation length. Statistics of snow sublimation and transport calculated using simulated windspeed distributions in a distributed blowing-snow model are found to be in good agreement for real and synthetic topographies. 相似文献