We present a new diagnostic mixing length for a turbulence scheme based on a prognostic equation for the turbulence kinetic energy. The formulation adds a local vertical wind shear term to the non-local buoyancy-based mixing length currently used in the research mesoscale model Meso-NH. The combined effects better represent local mixing for stably stratified flows where the wind shear plays a m...

The strength of the eddy-jet feedback in the midlatitude atmosphere is important for both internal variability and response to external forcing. A linear response function (LRF) that relates the temporal tendency of zonal mean temperature and zonal wind to their anomalies and external forcing is used to quantify the strength of the eddy-jet feedback associated with the annular mode in an ideali...

[1] The role of low-level transpacific paths in bringing east Asian air to the North American west coast surface is determined using conditional transit-time distributions. These distributions are computed with the MATCH transport model driven by NCEP reanalysis data. Transpacific paths that lie entirely below 2.2 km contribute negligibly to the west coast column burden of east Asian air. Howev...

This paper discusses our efforts to simulate large systems of bubbles in complex geometries, with specific application to modeling cavitation instabilities. An important unstable regime is the transition from sheet-to-cloud cavitation (SCC). Experiments performed by Callenaere et al. (2001) highlight the unsteady flow structures of SCC, which is characterized by unstable regions of vapor bubble...

We consider radiation of relativistic electrons accelerated within the jet extended boundary layer. Due to velocity shear across the boundary the observed jet/counterjet brightness ratio is diminished as compared to the one derived for the jet spine. Thus the jet Lorentz factor evaluated from the observed jet asymmetry can be an underestimated value influenced by observation of the slower bound...

An experimental investigation of sonic air, CO2 and Helium transverse jets in Mach 5 cross flow was carried out over a flat plate. The jet to freestream momentum flux ratio, J, was kept the same for all gases. The unsteady flow topology was examined using high speed schlieren visualisation and PIV. Schlieren visualisation provided information regarding oscillating jet shear layer structures and...

Abstract Recent enhanced warming and sea ice depletion in the Arctic have been put forward as potential drivers of severe weather midlatitudes. Evidence a link between midlatitude atmospheric circulation is growing, but role processes relative to other remains unknown. Arctic–midlatitude connections North Atlantic region are particularly complex important due frequent occurrence winters recent ...