Impact of soil moisture heterogeneity length scale and gradients on daytime coupled land-cloudy boundary layer interactions

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 1988-2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yuan Huang ◽  
Steven A. Margulis
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Soil Moisture Heterogeneity

Predicting Transition Without Empiricism or DNS

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Turbulence Intensity ◽  
Isotropic Turbulence ◽  
Numerical Procedure ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Arbitrary Orientation ◽  
Freestream Turbulence ◽  
Streamwise Direction ◽  
Laminar Boundary Layers ◽  
Experimental Values

A numerical procedure for predicting the receptivity of laminar boundary layers to freestream turbulence consisting of vortex arrays with arbitrary orientation has been developed. Results show that the boundary layer is most receptivity to those vortices which have their axes approximately in the streamwise direction and vortex wavelengths of approximately 1.2 δ. The computed near wall gains for isotropic turbulence are similar in magnitude to previously published experimental values used to predict transition. The new procedure is therefore capable of predicting the development of the fluctuations in the laminar boundary layer from values of the freestream turbulence intensity and length scale and hence determining the start of transition without resorting to any empirical correlation.

scholarly journals Summer temperature response to extreme soil water conditions in the Mediterranean transitional climate regime

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Materia ◽  
Constantin Ardilouze ◽  
Chloé Prodhomme ◽  
Markus G. Donat ◽  
Marianna Benassi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Seasonal Forecasts ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Surface Temperatures ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractLand surface and atmosphere are interlocked by the hydrological and energy cycles and the effects of soil water-air coupling can modulate near-surface temperatures. In this work, three paired experiments were designed to evaluate impacts of different soil moisture initial and boundary conditions on summer temperatures in the Mediterranean transitional climate regime region. In this area, evapotranspiration is not limited by solar radiation, rather by soil moisture, which therefore controls the boundary layer variability. Extremely dry, extremely wet and averagely humid ground conditions are imposed to two global climate models at the beginning of the warm and dry season. Then, sensitivity experiments, where atmosphere is alternatively interactive with and forced by land surface, are launched. The initial soil state largely affects summer near-surface temperatures: dry soils contribute to warm the lower atmosphere and exacerbate heat extremes, while wet terrains suppress thermal peaks, and both effects last for several months. Land-atmosphere coupling proves to be a fundamental ingredient to modulate the boundary layer state, through the partition between latent and sensible heat fluxes. In the coupled runs, early season heat waves are sustained by interactive dry soils, which respond to hot weather conditions with increased evaporative demand, resulting in longer-lasting extreme temperatures. On the other hand, when wet conditions are prescribed across the season, the occurrence of hot days is suppressed. The land surface prescribed by climatological precipitation forcing causes a temperature drop throughout the months, due to sustained evaporation of surface soil water. Results have implications for seasonal forecasts on both rain-fed and irrigated continental regions in transitional climate zones.

scholarly journals An Analytical Model for the Regeneration of Wind after Exiting a Wind Farm

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2071
Author(s):  
Brian Fiedler
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Atmospheric Boundary Layer ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Equilibrium Calculation ◽  
Friction Pressure

The simplest model for an atmospheric boundary layer assumes a uniform steady wind over a certain depth, of order 1 km, with the forces of friction, pressure gradient and Coriolis in balance. A linear model is here employed for the adjustment of wind to this equilibrium, as the wake of a very wide wind farm. A length scale is predicted for the exponential adjustment to equilibrium. Calculation of this length scale is aided by knowledge of the angle for which the wind would normally cross the isobars in environmental conditions in the wake.

scholarly journals Soil Moisture-Boundary Layer Feedbacks on the Loess Plateau in China Using Radiosonde Data with 1-D Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1619
Author(s):  
Yingsai Ma ◽  
Xianhong Meng ◽  
Yinhuan Ao ◽  
Ye Yu ◽  
Guangwei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Atmospheric Boundary Layer ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Atmospheric Stability ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Radiosonde Data ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
The Impact

The Loess Plateau is one land-atmosphere coupling hotspot. Soil moisture has an influence on atmospheric boundary layer development under specific early-morning atmospheric thermodynamic structures. This paper investigates the sensitivity of atmospheric convection to soil moisture conditions over the Loess Plateau in China by using the convective triggering potential (CTP)—humidity index (HIlow) framework. The CTP indicates atmospheric stability and the HIlow indicates atmospheric humidity in the low-level atmosphere. By comparing the model outcomes with the observations, the one-dimensional model achieves realistic daily behavior of the radiation and surface heat fluxes and the mixed layer properties with appropriate modifications. New CTP-HIlow thresholds for soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks are found in the Loess Plateau area. By applying the new thresholds with long-time scales sounding data, we conclude that negative feedback is dominant in the north and west portion of the Loess Plateau; positive feedback is predominant in the south and east portion. In general, this framework has predictive significance for the impact of soil moisture on precipitation. By using this new CTP-HIlow framework, we can determine under what atmospheric conditions soil moisture can affect the triggering of precipitation and under what atmospheric conditions soil moisture has no influence on the triggering of precipitation.

scholarly journals Improved mixing height monitoring through a combination of lidar and radon measurements

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 6835-6866 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Griffiths ◽  
S. D. Parkes ◽  
S. D. Chambers ◽  
M. F. McCabe ◽  
A. G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Radon Concentration ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Potential Method ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Mixing Length ◽  
Mixing Height ◽  
Lidar Measurements ◽  
Radon Measurements

Abstract. Surface-based radon (222Rn) measurements can be combined with lidar backscatter to obtain a higher quality time series of mixing height within the Planetary Boundary-Layer (PBL) than is possible from lidar alone, and a more quantitative measure of mixing height than is possible from only radon. The lidar measurements benefit because even when aerosol layers are detected, reliably attributing the mixing height to the correct layer presents a challenge. By combining lidar with a mixing length scale derived from a time series of radon concentration, automated and robust attribution is possible during the morning transition. Radon measurements also provide mixing information during the night and with the addition of lidar these measurements become insensitive to night-to-night changes in radon emissions. After calibration with lidar, the radon-derived equivalent mixing height agrees with other measures of mixing on daily and hourly time scales and is a potential method for studying intermittent mixing in nocturnal boundary layers.

A general approach for analytically upscaling the exact root water uptake equations despite heterogeneous soil moisture at the soil-root interface

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bouda ◽  
Jan Vanderborght ◽  
Mathieu Javaux
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Exact Solutions ◽  
Root System ◽  
Water Uptake ◽  
Grid Cell ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Water Flows ◽  
Heterogeneous Soil ◽  
Soil Moisture Heterogeneity ◽  
Earth System Models

<p>Recent advances in scaling up water flows on root system networks hold promise for improving predictions of water uptake at large scales. These developments are particularly timely, as persistent difficulties in getting Earth system models to accurately represent soil-root water flows, especially under drying or heterogeneous soil moisture conditions, are now a major obstacle describing the water limitation of terrestrial fluxes.</p><p>One recently developed upscaling formalism has been shown to be both free of discretisation error in flow predictions regardless of scale and with computational cost linearly diminishing with the number of soil subdomains considered. What has been missing from this approach, however, is a proven method to apply it generally – i.e. to an arbitrary root system architecture discretised on an arbitrary grid.</p><p>The work presented here demonstrates a general algorithm that can be applied to a wide range of root system architectures (the only assumption being that only one lateral root originates at one point along a parent root) discretised on a grid consisting of a series of soil layers of variable thickness, as is common in Earth system models. It is further shown theoretically that both of these restrictions can in principle be relaxed and that this approach can in principle be extended to conditions of soil moisture heterogeneity – i.e. situations where each root segment in a soil grid cell faces a different water potential at the soil-root interface.</p><p>This work represents both a practical advance bringing broad applicability to this upscaling approach and a major theoretical advance as exact solutions for water uptake under conditions of soil moisture heterogeneity within grid cells were previously unknown. While obtaining exact solutions despite heterogeneity within the grid cell requires a way of finding the overall mean soil water potential faced by the plant, this advance nevertheless points to possible directions of future research for overcoming the major hurdle of soil moisture heterogeneity.</p>

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