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BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY
Volume 123, Issue 1, Pages 121-142Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-006-9128-7
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cellular convection on Mars; large-eddy simulations; martian boundary layer; windless convection on Mars
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Results of large-eddy simulations of shallow, quasi-steady, shear-less convection in the Martian boundary layer are presented and discussed. In the considered three cases, turbulence is forced by the radiative flux divergence, prescribed as given functions of height, and the strength of the surface heat flux. It is constrained by the temperature inversion at the boundary-layer top. The resulting convective boundary layer exhibits horizontal cellular structures. The presence of radiative heating causes dimensionless statistics of turbulence to depend on the parameter F, defined in terms of the integrated radiative and turbulent heating rates in the boundary layer.
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