On the Determination of the Neutral Drag Coefficient in the Convective Boundary Layer   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

A.A. Grachev  C.W. Fairall  S.E. Larsen 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1998,86(2):257-278

Based on the idea that free convection can be considered as a particular case of forced convection, where the gusts driven by the large-scale eddies are scaled with the Deardorff convective velocity scale, a new formulation for the neutral drag coefficient, C_Dn, in the convective boundary layer (CBL) is derived. It is shown that (i) a concept of C_Dn can still be used under strongly unstable conditions including a pure free-convection regime even when no logarithmic portion in the velocity profile exists; (ii) gustiness corrections must be applied for rational calculations of C_Dn; and (iii) the stratification function used in the derivation of C_Dn should satisfy the theoretical free-convection limit. The new formulation is compared with the traditional relationship for C_Dn, and data collected over the sea (during the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) and the San Clemente Ocean Probing Experiment (SCOPE)) and over land (during the BOREX-95 experiment) are used to illustrate the difference between the new and traditional formulations. Compared to the new approach, the traditional formulation strongly overestimates C_Dn and z_o in the CBL for mean wind speed less than about 2 m s^-1. The new approach also clarifies several contradictory results from earlier works. Some aspects related to an alternate definition of the neutral drag coefficient and the wind speed and the stress averaging procedure are considered.  相似文献   

A study of a fair weather boundary layer in TOGA-COARE: Parameterization of surface fluxes in large scale and regional models for light wind conditions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

S. Mondon  J.L. Redelsperger 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1998,88(1):47-76

The study focuses on a way to parameterize the effect of subgrid scale convective motions on surface fluxes in large scale and regional models for the case of light surface winds. As previously proposed, these subgrid effects are assumed to scale with the convection intensity through the relationship: where is the mean velocity of the wind, U₀ the velocity of the mean wind, w_* the free convection velocity, and an empirical coefficient to be determined. Both observations and numerical simulation are presently used to determine the free convection coefficient .Large eddy simulation of a fair weather convective boundary layer case observed during TOGA-COARE is performed. Comparisons between observations and the simulation of surface properties and vertical profiles in the planetary boundary layer are presented. The simulated vertical turbulent fluxes of heat, moisture and buoyancy range well within estimates from aircraft measurements.The most important result is that the true free convection coefficient , directly estimated from simulation, leads to a value of 0.65, smaller than the ones estimated from temporal and spatial variances. Using observations and simulation, estimates of from temporal and spatial variances are obtained with similar values 0.8. From both theoretical derivations and numerical computations, it is shown that estimates of the true from variances are possible but only after applying a correction factor equal to 0.8. If this correction is not used, is overestimated by about 25%. The time and space sampling problem is also addressed in using numerical simulations.  相似文献   

Mean Profiles of Moisture Fluxes in Snow-Filled Boundary Layers   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

David A. R. Kristovich  Roscoe R. Braham Jr 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1998,87(2):195-215

Profiles of moisture fluxes have been examined for convective boundary layers containing clouds and snow, using data derived from aircraft measurements taken on four dates during the 1983/1984 University of Chicago lake-effect snow project. Flux profiles were derived from vertical stacks of aircraft cross-wind flight legs taken at various heights over Lake Michigan near the downwind shore. It was found that, if ice processes are taken into account, profiles of potential temperature and water content were very similar to those presented in past studies of convective boundary layers strongly heated from below. Profiles of total water content and equivalent potential temperature adjusted for ice were nearly invariant with height, except very near the top of the boundary layer, suggesting that internal boundary-layer mixing processes were rapid relative to the rates at which heat and vapour were transported into the boundary layer through entrainment and surface fluxes. Ice was found to play a significant, measurable role in boundary-layer moisture fluxes. It was estimated that 40 to 57% of the upward vapour flux was returned to the surface in the form of snow, converting about 45 to 64% of the surface latent heat flux into sensible heat in the snow-producing process. Assuming advective fluxes are relatively small (thought to be appropriate after the first few tens of km over the lake as suggested by past studies), the boundary layer was found to warm at a rate faster than could be explained by surface heat fluxes and latent heat releases alone, the remainder of the heating presumably coming from radiational processes and entrainment. Discussions of moisture phase change processes throughout the boundary layer and estimates of errors of these flux measurements are presented.  相似文献   

水汽场初值调整及其对华南降水预报贡献的研究   总被引：6，自引：2，他引：4       下载免费PDF全文

常越  何金海 《应用气象学报》2000,11(1):35-46

该文利用GMS多通道气象卫星资料推导得到的降水资料估算出的加热率, 作为非绝热的非线性正规模初始化过程中的非绝热强迫项, 进行风压场的初值调整, 再采用一个与模式中的对流参数化方案相反的逆运算方案, 进行水汽场的初值调整.以保证初始时刻按模式的物理参数化方案计算得到的加热率与由卫星推导的加热率一致. 这一方法在非绝热的非线性正规模初值化的框架中, 使初始时刻的水汽场得到调整.既实现了传统的初始化目标, 又提高了模式对降水的短时预报效果.对华南的两个个例的试验结果表明该文的方法是有效的.  相似文献   

Surface Heterogeneity and Vertical Structure of the Boundary Layer   总被引：7，自引：3，他引：4  

L. Mahrt 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2000,96(1-2):33-62

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Equilibrium Evaporation and the Convective Boundary Layer   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

M. R. Raupach 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2000,96(1-2):107-142

A theory is developed for surface energy exchanges in well-mixed, partlyopen systems, embracing fully open and fully closed systems as limits.Conservation equations for entropy and water vapour are converted intoan exact rate equation for the potential saturation deficit D in a well-mixed, partly open region. The main contributions to changes in D arise from (1) the flux of D at the surface, dependent on a conductance g_q that is a weighted sum of the bulk aerodynamic and surface conductances; and (2) the exchange flux of D with the external environment by entrainment or advection, dependent on a conductance g_e that is identifiable with the entrainment velocity when the partly open region is a growing convective boundary layer (CBL). The system is fully open when g_e/g_q , and fully closed when g_e/g_q 0. The equations determine the steady state surface energy balance (SEB) in a partly open system, the associated steady-state deficit, and the settling time scale needed to reach the steady state. The general result for the steady-state SEB corresponds to the equations of conventional combination theory for the SEB of a vegetated surface, with the surface-layer deficit replaced by the external deficit and with g_q replaced by the series sum (g_q ^-1 + g_e ^-1)^-1. In the fully open limit D is entirely externally prescribed, while in the fully closed limit, D is internally determined and the SEB approaches thermodynamic equilibrium energy partition. In the case of the CBL, the conductances g_q and g_e are themselves functions of D through short-term feedbacks, induced by entrainment in the case of g_e and by both physiological and aerodynamic (thermal stability) processes in the case of g_q. The effects of these feedbacks are evaluated. It is found that a steady-state CBL is physically achievable only over surfaces with at least moderate moisture availability; that entrainment has a significant accelerating effect on equilibration; that the settling time scale is well approximated by h/(g_q + g_e), where h is the CBL depth; and that this scale is short enough to allow a steady state to evolve within a semi-diurnal time scale only when h is around 500 m or less.  相似文献   

Interannual variability of the convective activities associated with the east asian summer monsoon obtained from tbb variability   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Ren Baohu  Huang Ronghui 《大气科学进展》1999,16(1):77-90

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Betts对流调整方案在移动套网格台风数值模式中的初步试验   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

刘宇迪  翟子航 《气象科学》1999,19(4):335-342

Betts对流调整方案采用的是垂直温湿场向观测的准平衡热力结构松驰的方法。本文在一个考虑了台风初值化的移动套网格台风数值模式中,对Betts方案进行了初步试验。结果表明：Betts方案能较好的预报出台风移动的路径和降水过程,并在台风路径、降水落区预报以及对流增温的垂直分布等方面都略优于Kuo方案的预报结果。  相似文献   

关于岩体爆破研究的几点思考     

吴立  林峰  张时忠 《地质科技情报》1999,(Z1)

为研究和探索爆炸荷载与岩体相互作用的本质,运用能量守恒、系统论和复杂性理论,阐述了岩体爆破过程中的几个重要问题,即炸药与岩体的相互匹配、岩体爆破的系统性和复杂性问题。  相似文献   

对流边界层中的一个双高斯型PDF扩散模式     

朱忠湛  李宗恺 《气象学报》1995,53(1):74-81

对流边界层（ＣＢＬ）中的污染扩散是非高斯型的。本文在下列三个假设下建立了双高斯型几率分布函数（ＰＤＦ）模式：１．对流边界层任一确定高度铅直速度Ｗ的几率分布函数ｐｗ由两个高斯分布迭加而成；２．从污染源释放的粒子具有源高的铅直速度几率分布，且其轨迹是线性的；３．粒子在地面的反射为全反射，在混合层高度Ｚｉ为全反射或有部分吸收。然后分析了三个高度上铅直速度Ｗ的一些统计特征量，比较了由ＰＤＦ模式计算的横风向积分浓度和Ｌａｍｂ的数值模拟［１－３］，Ｄｅａｒｄｏｒｆｆ的水槽模拟［４－６］结果，并用美国ＣＯＮＤＯＲＳ计划的外场试验资料［７］对ＰＤＦ模式进行了验证，结果均相当一致。  相似文献