The diurnal cycle of shallow cumulus clouds over land: A single-column model intercomparison study

2004 ◽  
Vol 130 (604) ◽  
pp. 3339-3364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Lenderink ◽  
A. Pier Siebesma ◽  
Sylvain Cheinet ◽  
Sarah Irons ◽  
Colin G. Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diurnal Cycle ◽  
Model Intercomparison ◽  
Cumulus Clouds ◽  
Column Model ◽  
Shallow Cumulus ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Single Column Model ◽  
Intercomparison Study

scholarly journals A single-column model intercomparison on the stratocumulus representation in present-day and future climate

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 617-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dal Gesso ◽  
J. J. van der Dussen ◽  
A. P. Siebesma ◽  
S. R. de Roode ◽  
I. A. Boutle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Future Climate ◽  
Model Intercomparison ◽  
Column Model ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Single Column Model

scholarly journals A single-column model intercomparison of a heavily drizzling stratocumulus-topped boundary layer

2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (D24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Wyant ◽  
Christopher S. Bretherton ◽  
Andreas Chlond ◽  
Brian M. Griffin ◽  
Hiroto Kitagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Model Intercomparison ◽  
Column Model ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Single Column Model

scholarly journals Single-Column Model Intercomparison for a Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

2005 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Cuxart ◽  
A. A. M. Holtslag ◽  
R. J. Beare ◽  
E. Bazile ◽  
A. Beljaars ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Atmospheric Boundary Layer ◽  
Model Intercomparison ◽  
Column Model ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Single Column Model

scholarly journals Select strengths and biases of models in representing the Arctic winter boundary layer over sea ice: the Larcform 1 single column model intercomparison

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1345-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Pithan ◽  
Andrew Ackerman ◽  
Wayne M. Angevine ◽  
Kerstin Hartung ◽  
Luisa Ickes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Model Intercomparison ◽  
Column Model ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Single Column Model

scholarly journals Large-Eddy Simulation and Single-Column Modeling of Thermally Stratified Wind Turbine Arrays for Fully Developed, Stationary Atmospheric Conditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1144-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Sescu ◽  
Charles Meneveau
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stratification ◽  
Layer Structure ◽  
Potential Temperature ◽  
Surface Fluxes ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Column Model ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Single Column ◽  
Single Column Model

AbstractEffects of atmospheric thermal stratification on the asymptotic behavior of very large wind farms are studied using large-eddy simulations (LES) and a single-column model for vertical distributions of horizontally averaged field variables. To facilitate comparisons between LES and column modeling based on Monin–Obukhov similarity theory, the LES are performed under idealized conditions of statistical stationarity in time and fully developed conditions in space. A suite of simulations are performed for different thermal stratification levels and the results are used to evaluate horizontally averaged vertical profiles of velocity, potential temperature, vertical turbulent momentum, and heat flux. Both LES and the model show that the stratification significantly affects the atmospheric boundary layer structure, its height, and the surface fluxes. However, the effects of the wind farm on surface heat fluxes are found to be relatively small in both LES and the single-column model. The surface fluxes are the result of two opposing trends: an increase of mixing in wakes and a decrease in mixing in the region below the turbines due to reduced momentum fluxes there for neutral and unstable cases, or relatively unchanged shear stresses below the turbines in the stable cases. For the considered cases, the balance of these trends yields a slight increase in surface flux magnitude for the stable and near-neutral unstable cases, and a very small decrease in flux magnitude for the strongly unstable cases. Moreover, thermal stratification is found to have a negligible effect on the roughness scale as deduced from the single-column model, consistent with the expectations of separation of scale.

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