Journal
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY
Volume 180, Issue 1, Pages 5-26Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-021-00611-7
Keywords
Horizontal homogeneity; Overlying inversion; Stable boundary layer; Wind-tunnel simulation
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- EnFlo Laboratory
- SUPERGEN-Wind Grand Challenge MAXFARM Project
- InnovateUK SWEPT2 Projects
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N006224/1, EP/N508512/1]
- NCAS
- EPSRC [EP/N006224/1, EP/N508512/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Two cases of an overlying inversion imposed on a stable boundary layer are studied, showing horizontally homogeneous behavior over a streamwise fetch of more than eight boundary-layer heights, while the behavior of temperature and velocity in the lower portion of the boundary layer is more complex.
Two cases of an overlying inversion imposed on a stable boundary layer are investigated, extending the work of Hancock and Hayden (Boundary-Layer Meteorol 168:29-57, 2018; 175:93-112, 2020). Vertical profiles of Reynolds stresses and heat flux show closely horizontally homogeneous behaviour over a streamwise fetch of more than eight boundary-layer heights. However, profiles of mean temperature and velocity show closely horizontally homogeneous behaviour only in the top two-thirds of the boundary layer. In the lower one-third the temperature decreases with fetch, directly as a consequence of heat transfer to the surface. A weaker effect is seen in the mean velocity profiles, curiously, such that the gradient Richardson number is invariant with fetch, while various other quantities are not. Stability leads to a 'blocking' of vertical influence. Inferred aerodynamic and thermal roughness lengths increase with fetch, while the former is constant in the neutral case, as expected. Favourable validation comparisons are made against two sets of local-scaling systems over the full depth of the boundary layer. Close concurrence is seen for all stable cases for z/L < 0.2, where z and L are the vertical height and local Obukhov length, respectively, and over most of the layer for some quantities.
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