Air and Surface Temperature Coupling in the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Surface - temperature and surface - layer turbulence in a convective 1 boundary layer

Bulk Models of the Atmospheric Convective Boundary Layer

The paper presents an overview of modeling the atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) using bulk parameterizations for the vertical structure of the layer. Such parameterizations are constructed based on empirical knowledge about vertical distributions of meteorological variables in the CBL. Two main types of CBL bulk models are presented and discussed. The first model considered is the so...

On subgrid-scale physics in the convective atmospheric surface layer

The dynamics of the subgrid-scale (SGS) stress and scalar flux in the convective atmospheric surface layer are studied using field measurements from the Advection Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (AHATS). We extend the array technique previously used to evaluate the SGS velocity and temperature to include measurements of the fluctuating pressure, enabling separation of the resolvableand subgri...

Structure Inclination Angles in the Convective Atmospheric Surface Layer

Two-point correlations of the fluctuating streamwise velocity are examined in the atmospheric surface layer over the salt flats of Utah’s western desert, and corresponding structure inclination angles are obtained for neutral, stable and unstable conditions. The neutral surface-layer results supplement evidence for the invariance of the inclination angle given in Marusic and Heuer (Phys Rev Let...

Intensity of convective motions in marine atmospheric boundary layer retrieved from ocean surface radar imagery

The paper focuses on the occurrence and development of coherent structures observed in the atmosphere above ocean under natural conditions. Microwave imaging radars are suggested as data take instruments. The phenomena of marine atmospheric cells and rolls onset, horizontal planform, aspect ratio and scaling phenomena are examined. Convective patterns manifested in radar images and information ...