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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
卷 15, 期 8, 页码 4241-4257出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-4241-2015
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- Meteorology and Air Quality Section at Wageningen University
- University of Bonn
- DFG [SCHU2350/21]
- Dutch Research Council (NWO) [SH-060-13, SH-312-14]
- NUFICC
- French-Dutch Academy
We study the influence of the large-scale atmospheric contribution to the dynamics of the convective boundary layer (CBL) in a situation observed during the Boundary Layer Late Afternoon and Sunset Turbulence (BLLAST) field campaign. We employ two modeling approaches, the mixed-layer theory and large-eddy simulation (LES), with a complete data set of surface and upper-air atmospheric observations, to quantify the contributions of the advection of heat and moisture, and subsidence. We find that by only taking surface and entrainment fluxes into account, the boundary-layer height is overestimated by 70 %. Constrained by surface and upper-air observations, we infer the large-scale vertical motions and horizontal advection of heat and moisture. Our findings show that subsidence has a clear diurnal pattern. Supported by the presence of a nearby mountain range, this pattern suggests that not only synoptic scales exert their influence on the boundary layer, but also mesoscale circulations. LES results show a satisfactory correspondence of the vertical structure of turbulent variables with observations. We also find that when large-scale advection and subsidence are included in the simulation, the values for turbulent kinetic energy are lower than without these large-scale forcings. We conclude that the prototypical CBL is a valid representation of the boundary-layer dynamics near regions characterized by complex topography and small-scale surface heterogeneity, provided that surface-and large-scale forcings are representative for the local boundary layer.
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