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Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufm.p22b..06t&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #P22B-06
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0305 Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), 3307 Boundary Layer Processes, 3311 Clouds And Aerosols, 3314 Convective Processes
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Recent studies on dust emission and transport have been concerning the small-scale atmospheric processes in order to incorporate them as a subgrid-scale effect in large-scale numerical prediction models. In the present study, we investigated the dynamical processes and mechanisms of dust emission, mixing, and transport induced by boundary-layer and cumulus convection under a fair-weather condition over a Chinese desert. We performed a set of sensitivity experiments as well as a control simulation in order to examine the effects of vertical wind shear, upper-level wind speed, and moist convection by using a simplified and idealized modeling framework. The results of the control experiment showed that surface dust emission was at first caused before the noon time by intense convective motion which not only developed in the boundary layer but also penetrated into the free troposphere. In the afternoon hours, boundary-layer dry convection actively mixed and transported dust within the boundary layer. Some of the convective cells penetrated above the boundary layer, which led to the generation of cumulus clouds and hence gradually increased the dust content in the free troposphere. Coupled effects of the dry and moist convection played an important role in inducing surface dust emission and transporting dust vertically. This was clearly demonstrated through the comparison of the results between the control and the sensitivity experiments. The results of the control simulation were compared with lidar measurements. The simulation well captured the observed diurnal features of the upward transport of dust. We also examined the dependence of the simulated results on grid resolution: the grid size was changed from 250 m up to 4 km. It was found that there was a significant difference between the 2-km and 4-km grids. If a cumulus parameterization was added to the 4-km grid run, the column content was comparable to the other cases. This result suggests that subgrid parameterizations are required if the grid size is larger than the order of 1 km in a fair-weather condition.
Takemi Tetsuya
Yasui Minami
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