Effects of land-surface heterogeneity upon surface fluxes and turbulent conditions |
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| Authors: | Y Shao M Sogalla M Kerschgens W Brücher |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN
Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universit?t zu K?ln, Germany, DE
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| Abstract: | Summary
In this paper, we examine the effects of land-surface heterogeneity on the calculation of surface-energy and momentum fluxes
in a meso-scale atmospheric model. A series of numerical experiments has been carried out with a combination of different
resolutions for the atmosphere and the land surface, which allows an examination of the aggregation and dynamic effects associated
with land-surface heterogeneity. The numerical results show that for a given atmospheric model resolution, increased land-surface
resolution leads to better estimates of surface-energy and momentum fluxes, and for a given land-surface resolution, increased
atmospheric model resolution also improves the estimates of these fluxes. This latter result contradicts the prevailing view
that subgrid variation in atmospheric data plays only a minor role in estimating the fluxes. It is also shown that subgrid
land-surface heterogeneity leads to increased turbulent fluctuations. The responsible mechanisms of this effect are both the
subgrid variation of surface-energy fluxes and their impact upon the development of convective cells. It is suggested that
subgrid atmospheric motions induced by surface heterogeneity may be an important factor which needs to be considered in subgrid
closure schemes for atmospheric models.
Received August 28, 2000/Revised June 1, 2001 |
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