The effects of topography on the summer atmospheric energetics of the Northern Hemisphere in a low-resolution global spectral model |
| |
Authors: | Ni Yunqi Bette L Otlo-Bliesner David D Houghton |
| |
Institution: | (1) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing;(2) Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, 53706 Madison, WI, USA |
| |
Abstract: | An analysis is made of the effects of topography on the summer atmospheric energetics of the Northern Hemisphere in a low-resolution
global spectral model. The numerical mode! is a global, spectral, primitive equation model with five equally spaced sigma
levels in the vertical and triangular truncation at wavenumber 10 in the horizontal. The model includes comparatively full
physical processes.
Each term of the energy budget equations is calculated in four specific latitudinal belts (81.11°S–11.53°S; 11.53°S–11.53°N;
11.53°N–46.24°N; 46.24°N–81.11°N) from a five-year simulation with mountains and a one-year simulation without mountains,
respectively. Differences between them are compared and statistically tested. The results show that synoptical scale waves
transport available potential energy and kinetic energy to long waves and increase conversion from available potential energy
of the zonal flow to eddy's and from the eddy kinetic energy to the zonal kinetic energy in region 3 (11.53°N-46.24°N) due
to mountains; topography intensifies the atmospheric baroclinity in region 3, consequently the baroclinic conversion of atmosphere
energy is increased. The seasonal characteristics associated with the summer atmospheric energy source in region 3 are caused
by seasonal variation of the solar radiation and the land-ocean contrasts and independent of topographic effects. The mechanism
of topographic effects on the increase of long wave kinetic energy is also discussed. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
| 点击此处可从《大气科学进展》浏览原始摘要信息 |
| 点击此处可从《大气科学进展》下载免费的PDF全文 |
|