Coastal CCN measurements at Mace Head with enhanced concentrations in strong winds

Surface measurements of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) number concentration (cm⁻³) are presented for unmodified marine air and for polluted air at Mace Head, for the years 1994 and 1995. The CCN number concentration active at 0.5% supersaturation is found to be approximately log-normal for marine and polluted air at the site. Values of geometric mean, median and arithmetic mean of CCN number concentration (cm⁻³) for marine air are in the range 124–135, 140–150 and 130–157 for the two years of data. Analysis of CCN number concentration for high wind speed, U, up to 20 m s⁻¹ show enhanced CCN production for U in excess of about 10–12 m s⁻¹. Approximately 7% increase in CCN per 1 m s⁻¹ increase in wind speed is found, up to 17 m s⁻¹. A relationship of the form log₁₀CCN=a+bU is obtained for the periods March 1994 and January, February 1995 for marine air yielding values a of 1.70; 1.90 and b of 0.035 for both periods.     

A Gill twin propeller-vane anemometer for flux measurements during moderate and strong winds

A wind velocity measuring system based on the Gill propeller anemometer is described. A method of calculating the vertical component, which allows for the non-cosine response and avoids the region of stall and nonlinear operation, is presented. A summary of the possible errors in Reynolds stress and drag coefficient estimates is given. A method of establishing the distance constant using field observations is presented. Finally, some preliminary results and some intercomparisons with other anemometers are described briefly.Now at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Patricia Bay, B.C., Canada.     

Simultaneous determinations of the sensible and latent heat transfer coefficients for tree leaves

The heat and mass transfer coefficients for exchange across the fluid dynamic boundary layer over tree leaves were simultaneously determined in a controlled environment chamber. The mass transfer coefficients were calculated from measured values of evaporation, air specific humidity and a value of leaf specific humidity at leaf temperature. The heat transfer coefficients were calculated from measured values of air temperature, leaf temperature and an estimate of the sensible heat flux density calculated as the measured net radiation at the leaf surfaces minus the latent heat flux density. The experiments described in this paper indicate that the equations based on laminar boundary-layer theory can give reasonable estimates of the transfer coefficients of real tree leaves for the velocities most commonly experienced in plant canopies, if they are adjusted by a constant multiplier greater than one. Calculations of local mass transfer coefficients based on temperature measurements at three locations at different distances from the leading edge of the leaves, indicate that the deviation from theory is probably the result of transition to turbulent boundary-layer flow at some distance from the leading edge.     

On the Black Sea circulation with very strong and weak winds

With a baroclinic prognostic model of sea dynamics, the annual cycle of the Black Sea hydrological regime is modeled for constantly changing atmospheric circulation types characteristic of the Black Sea. Emphasis is placed on the hydrological structure of the upper sea layer in two extreme meteorological situations, storm and near-calm conditions over the sea basin. A significant difference is found in the character of the sea currents, and the main sea circulation features are determined for such situations. The system of model equations is solved using a method of two-cycle splitting on a grid with a 5-km horizontal step and 32 levels in the vertical.     

Turbulent transfer at the ground: On verification of a simple predictive model

Observations on heat transfer from ground-based plates and evaporation from free water surfaces in the laboratory and in the field are compared with predictions from a simple model. The model relates the convective transfer coefficient (or boundary-layer resistance) at any point on a surface to the momentum transfer (friction velocity) in the boundary layer immediately above it and should be applicable to practically any soil surface, open or vegetated.Heat-transfer data showed a standard deviation of 25%; between predictions and observations. Evaporation data provided only order-of-magnitude confirmation of the model because of uncertainty in effective water vapor density above small free-water surfaces.     

复杂山地近地层强风特性分析

利用在贵州省西南部复杂山地上获取的近地层梯度风观测资料和三维超声测风仪观测资料,从中筛选出具有该地气候特征的强风样本,利用数量统计和谱分析等方法,计算分析了由于复杂地形影响而导致的局地低层强风的平均和脉动特征.平均风场主要表现在受当地主要特征地形(西北-东南走向的深切峡谷)影响,其全年的主导风向和最大风速出现的方向几乎完全转为沿峡谷走向,即使在符合中性大气层结条件下,风的垂直廓线也完全不满足幂指数分布,风攻角远远大于规范推荐的值,并且不同风向的强风攻角因地形影响其差异可达20°;强风条件下脉动风场的主要特征是:不同风向强风的湍流强度有所不同,在纵、横和垂直方向的湍流强度比值与现行设计规范给出的三维湍流强度比值有明显差异,其中垂直方向的湍流强度显著偏大是突出特征;湍流积分尺度偏大,其中纵向值偏大20%-60%,横向值在某些风向上可偏大3倍以上,垂直方向则普遍较平坦地形偏大一个量级左右;在桥梁结构较为敏感的频域范围内,各风向的湍流谱密度值有显著差异,其中不同风向在纵向上最大差值可达8倍,横向和垂直向可相差6倍,但无论哪个方向的湍流谱密度值均比台风中心要小1-2个量级.     

Estimation of Winds at Different Isobaric Levels Based on the Observed Winds at 850 hPa Level Using Double Fourier Series

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一次飑线内MVs和后向入流对地面大风形成影响的模拟研究

通过实况资料以及WRF模式对广西地区的一次飑线过程进行数值模拟,根据模拟结果对飑线内中尺度涡旋MVs(Mesoscale Vortices,MVs)和后向入流与地面大风的成因关系进行了分析。通过涡度收支和涡线分析得出,弓状回波中存在东西涡旋对,其生成主要是散度项造成,中间相对弱的反气旋涡旋是涡线拱起产生的水平涡度向垂直涡度转换引起。通过计算正负涡旋对引起的旋转风从而量化了涡旋对对地面大风的贡献。结果发现,本次过程中涡旋对引起的旋转风在地面大风中占有较大比重,约40%～50%。当去除涡旋对引起的旋转风时,地面大风的强度减弱,位置偏移。由三维流线可以看出后向入流的下沉是产生地面大风的另一个影响因子。通过对浮力加速度和动力加速度进行诊断发现,后向入流的下沉主要是由于负的浮力加速度引起,水平方向的密度不均匀是负浮力加速度产生的主要因子,但在风速突然加强时,动力加速度也有明显的影响。     

Aerodynamic roughness of the sea surface at high winds

The role of the surface roughness in the formation of the aerodynamic friction of the water surface at high wind speeds is investigated. The study is based on a wind-over-waves coupling theory. In this theory waves provide the surface friction velocity through the form drag, while the energy input from the wind to waves depends on the friction velocity and the wind speed. The wind-over-waves coupling model is extended to high wind speeds taking into account the effect of sheltering of the short wind waves by the air-flow separation from breaking crests of longer waves. It is suggested that the momentum and energy flux from the wind to short waves locally vanishes if they are trapped into the separation bubble of breaking longer waves. At short fetches, typical for laboratory conditions, and strong winds the steep dominant wind waves break frequently and provide the major part of the total form drag through the air-flow separation from breaking crests, and the effect of short waves on the sea drag is suppressed. In this case the dependence of the drag coefficient on the wind speed is much weaker than would be expected from the standard parameterization of the roughness parameter through the Charnock relation. At long fetches, typical for the field, waves in the spectral peak break rarely and their contribution to the air-flow separation is weak. In this case the surface form drag is determined predominantly by the air-flow separation from breaking of the equilibrium range waves. As found at high wind speeds up to 60 m s⁻¹ the modelled aerodynamic roughness is consistent with the Charnock relation, i.e. there is no saturation of the sea drag. Unlike the aerodynamic roughness, the geometrical surface roughness (height of short waves) could be saturated or even suppressed when the wind speed exceeds 30 m s⁻¹.     

Diurnal variations of radon and meteorological variables near the ground

Radon is an excellent tracer for the study of transport processes in the lower atmospheric boundary layer. Analyses of the radon data measured on a 300-m meteorological tower at Philadelphia show that the diurnal variation of atmospheric turbulence is closely related to the meteorological variables. A model of variation of radon concentration with mean wind speed and low-level vertical temperature difference is derived. It indicates that radon concentration is inversely proportional to the mean wind speed and directly proportional to the temperature difference. These predictions are in good agreement with the measurements.     

Comparison of the turbulent transfer processes near the surface

In order to parameterize the surface fluxes, it is desirable first to understand the turbulent transfer processes. In this paper the spectral correlation coefficients for momentum, heat and moisture transfer from the Ladner, BOMEX and Suffield experiments are compared. Near-neutral to unstable stratifications were examined. Differences between heat and momentum transfer processes were found and the differences increased with instability. The transfer of a passive scalar, such as moisture was found to be dependent on the active-scalar/passive-scalar correlation.     

Seasonal trends in the frequencies of strong winds over Lake Superior and the gulf of St. Laurence

An acoustic echo sounder situated in downtown Toronto has been used to detect convective plumes in the planetary boundary layer and to measure, by means of the Doppler effect, the vertical air motions associated with them. The plumes observed were the order of 390 m in horizontal extent, were detectable to a height of about 400 m, and were characterized by peak upward velocities in excess of 1 m s^?1. The sounder measurements are shown to be consistent with surface meteorological parameters, and suggest that free convection over an urban area of considerable surface roughness and non‐uniformity is not greatly different from that over uniform land surfaces or water.     

夜间逆温层高度的预报

本文用一维非定常位温方程,考虑湍流垂直输送和夜间长波辐射冷却作用,导出了晴空夜间逆温层高度的预报方程,并用成都双流机场的实测资料进行了计算.结果表明预报方程的计算结果与实测情况符合较好.     

Eddy flux measurements over the ocean and related transfer coefficients

Eddy correlation measurements of vertical turbulent fluxes made during AMTEX 1975 are used to assess the reliability of flux prediction from established bulk transfer relations, using both surface-layer and planetary boundary-layer formulations. The surface-layer formulae predict momentum and latent heat fluxes to an accuracy comparable to the direct eddy correlation method, using transfer coefficients of C _DN (at 10m and in neutral conditions) increasing with wind speed, and a constant C _EN - 1.5 × 10 ^–3 . The data suggest C _CHN , for sensible heat, increases significantly with wind speed and is on average 30% lower than C _CEN The boundary-layer drag coefficient, C _GD , agrees within about 40% of recently published values using a vertically averaged geostrophic wind to the height of the lowest temperature inversion, corrected for trajectory curvature. Values of _* / from which C _CGH is derived, are in excellent agreement if the published values are modified to account for inappropriate surface temperatures used in their derivation. Preliminary values of C _GE are also presented.     

绿洲周边荒漠戈壁夏末土壤-大气水分传输特征

利用“我国西北干旱区陆-气相互作用试验”2000年8-9月在甘肃敦煌地区戈壁滩上取得的野外观测资料,分析了临近绿洲的戈壁土壤湿度和温度特征以及相对应的大气湿度特征,发现土壤热量活动层约为5cm厚,比一般土壤要薄得多;临近绿洲的荒漠戈壁上,不仅近地层大气多为逆湿,而且浅层土壤有时也出现逆湿。土壤湿度日变化能清楚地被区分为湿维持、水分损失、干维持和水分补充等四个阶段。土壤湿度廓线表明：土壤水分活动层厚度约为10m;湿维持阶段的浅层土壤逆湿是土壤湿度廓线最主要的结构特征,这一土壤湿度结构预示着夜间土壤可能通过凝结吸收大气水分,它与白天的土壤水分蒸发共同构成土壤对大气水分的“呼吸”过程。土壤逆湿的形成与土壤温度状态、大气逆湿强度和大气稳定度都有关。     

Inequality of eddy transfer coefficients for vertical transport of sensible and latent heats during advective inversions

Similarity of transport of water vapour and sensible heat was investigated within an advective inversion layer by measuring eddy fluxes together with gradients of temperature and humidity. The experimental site was a field of rice, grown under flood irrigation, which was situated in a semi-arid region. The fetch was about 300 m and local stabilities (z/L) over the rice ranged from 0 to 0.1. Results were expressed as the ratio of eddy transfer coefficients for sensible heat (K _H) and water vapour (K _w). Near neutral stability, K _H/K_W approached 1, but the ratio decreased to about 0.65 with increasing stability. Existing theory predicts the result qualitatively but accounts for only about one fifth of the decrease in K _H/K_W with stability.     

Exponential-linear stability correction functions for weak to moderate instability near the ground

Stability correction functions which combine the exponent of z/L, and a linear term in z/L, are proposed for the unstable case. The functions provide a reasonably close fit to the _m and _h results of Dyer and Hicks (1970) for 0 < –z/L 1, but they cannot be extended to cases of strong instability. Attractive features are the ability to integrate the expressions directly in terms of z/L, and a particularly close fit of the integrated result to experimentally derived _m values.     

Evaluation of six parameterization approaches for the ground heat flux

Summary There are numerous approaches to the parameterization of the ground heat flux that use different input data, are valid for different times of the day, and deliver results of different quality. Six of these approaches are tested in this study: three approaches calculating the ground heat flux from net radiation, one approach using the turbulent sensible heat flux, one simplified in situ measurement approach, and the force-restore method. On the basis of a data set recorded during the LITFASS-2003 experiment, the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches are assessed. The quality of the best approaches (simplified measurement and force-restore) approximates that of the measured data set. An approach calculating the ground heat flux from net radiation and the diurnal amplitude of the soil surface temperature also delivers satisfactory daytime results. The remaining approaches all have such serious drawbacks that they should only be applied with care. Altogether, this study demonstrates that ground heat flux parameterization has the potential to produce results matching measured ones very well, if all conditions and restrictions of the respective approaches are taken into account.