Computer Science
Scientific paper
Feb 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995bolme..73...91f&link_type=abstract
Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Volume 73, Issue 1-2, pp. 91-104
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
This study compares different simple mixing schemes for one-dimensional models and then focuses on the two-scale mixing approach. Two-scale mixing consists of local diffusion between adjacent grid levels and nonlocal mixing over the bulk of the boundary layer (nonlocal mixing). The latter represents nonlocal mixing by the boundary-layer scale eddies. A common example of two-scale mixing is the formulation of the turbulent heat transport in terms of an eddy diffusivity to represent small-scale diffusion and a “countergradient correction” to represent boundary-layer scale transport. Most existing two-scale approaches are applied to heat and moisture transport while momentum transport is simultaneously parameterized only in terms of a local diffusivity without nonlocal mixing. This study attempts to correct this inconsistency. The resulting model is compared with Lidar observations of spatially averaged winds which are found to be superior to radiosonde and aircraft data for determining the mean structure. The two-scale mixing correctly predicts the observed well mixed conditions for momentum while the original model based on a local diffusivity for momentum fails to produce a well mixed state. Unfortunately, the “best” value for the adjustable coefficient in the nonlocal mixing part of the two-scale approach appears to depend on baroclinity in a way which can not be completely resolved from existing data.
Frech M.
Mahrt L.
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