Diurnal momentum budget analysis of thermally induced slope winds

Summary  Data measured during the TRACT field campaign at various stations along a 7.5° steep and west-northwest facing slope of the Black Forest mountain range (Germany) are used to analyze the thermal structure and the momentum budget associated with thermally induced slope winds. Acceleration of the air close to the ground is found to be directed nearly vertically downward during the night and nearly vertically upward during the day, rather than parallel to the slope. This means that during the night the airflow is deflected by the slope surface in the down-slope direction, whereas during daytime stable stratification above the heated slope layer is required to establish up-slope flow parallel to the slope. The diurnal cycle of the momentum budget of the along-slope wind component near the surface is analyzed in detail with respect to the driving forces (buoyancy and pressure gradient force) and friction. It is found that a small imbalance between forcing and friction is responsible for the diurnal change in slope flow intensity. The along-slope components of the horizontal pressure gradient force and the buoyancy force are shown to have the same order of magnitude. This means that for small to moderate slope angles the pressure gradient force cannot be neglected as is done in some analytical slope wind models. The reaction time of the slope flow to changes in forcing is estimated to be in the range of 30 to 120 seconds, which confirms the empirically known fact that slope winds react very quickly. Received December 1, 1999 Revised June 13, 2000     

IAP-AGCM对QBO模拟的动量收支分析

平流程准两年振荡(QBO)是赤道平流层(～100-1 hPa)变率的主要模态,可对中高纬地区的环流产生重要影响,但目前利用通用大气环流模式(GCM)对其进行准确模拟仍然是一个挑战.本文利用IAP大气环流模式(IAP-AGCM)的中高层大气模式版本(IAP-AGCML69)对QBO进行模拟,并对其动量收支情况进行分析.研...     

Drag of a thin closed fence estimated by the momentum budget technique

Summary In a full-scale field study, the drag coefficient has been estimated of a closed thin fence, which has been attached to the earth's surface. The momentum budget method has been applied to a small and narrow control volume around the fence. It appeared that the drag coefficient was strongly dependent on the thermal stratification of the atmosphere. The result under thermally near-neutral conditions agreed well with an independent direct measuring technique.

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Zusammenfassung Der Widerstandsbeiwert eines dichten dünnen Zaunes, der am Erdboden befestigt war, wurde bestimmt. Dabei wurde das Impulsbilanzverfahren an einem kleinen und schmalen Kontrollvolumen angewendet. Es zeigte sich, daß der Widerstandsbeiwert stark von der thermischen Schichtung der Atmosphäre abhängig war. Bei thermisch neutralem Zustand stimmte das Resultat gut mit unabhängigen direkten Messungen überein.

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西太平洋热带地区大气能量收支分析——中美西太平洋海-气合作考察观测事实之二

依据1986年2月8—14日中美西太平洋海气合作考察资料,计算了西太平洋热带海域(140—160°E,18°N—14°S)内的大气能量收支。结果表明,该区域的能量是由外界向区域内输送的。在东、南、西、西北四个边界积上以能量输到为主,只有在东北边界上,以输出为主。该区内的能量输送是以平均输送为主,扰动输送的数量级较小。考察期间,该区域内大气有明显的增温现象。     

A surface energy budget view of the 1988 midwestern United States drought

Measurements of the surface energy budget over an Illinois corn field during the summer drought of 1988 yielded Bowen ratio values around 1 compared to potential values of 0.2–0.3 if soil moisture had not been limiting. An analysis of the atmospheric water vapor budget for the upper midwestern United States suggests that the measured decrease in evapotranspiration was significant and may have played a role in the persistence and severity of the drought by reducing the atmospheric water vapor supply and increasing the atmospheric heating rate.     

Available potential energy in the atmosphere

Summary The study of available potential energy is approached in a new way. According to the second law of thermodynamics, we may find, from among the states which can be attained through all the actual processes in an isolated atmosphere, the limit state, referred to as the lowest state, that is achieved by means of reversible processes and possesses the least total potential energy. Thus, the maximum available potential energy can be estimated by taking the lowest state as the reference state. The variations of the lowest state and maximum available potential energy with baroclinity and mean static stability are illustrated graphically as some examples in the text. This study gives a more fundamental understanding for the kinetic energy generation in the baroclinic atmosphere. Also, the extreme kinetic generation in irreversible processes is investigated. The obtained results may be adopted for the energetics of explosive systems in the atmosphere.With 10 Figures     

On the mass and heat budget of arctic sea ice

Summary Measurements during the drift of US Drifting Station A show an annual mass increase of old ice consisting of 12.5 g/cm² snow and 52 g/cm² bottom accretion. During the summer seasons 1957 and 1958 an amount of 19.2 and 41.4 g/cm² respectively, was lost by surface ablation. The ratio of ablation on elevated dry surface and in meltwater ponds is 1:2.5. The average pond area was about 30%. Bottom ablation by heat transfer from the ocean was found to be 22 cm (July to Aug./Sept.).Methods of measuring mass changes are described. In view of their importance as a means of checking the computed heat budget their accuracy is discussed in detail.The heat budget is computed for a selected period during the height of the melt season. The average daily totals are, in cal/cm²: +142 from net short wave radiation –8 from net long wave radiation, +9 from turbulent heat transfer, and –11 from evaporation. The mean daily surface ablation is 0.8 cm. About 90% of it is due to the absorption of short wave radiationOnly 62% of the total heat supply are transformed at the surface. 38% are transmitted into the ice and mainly used to increase the brine volume. The vertical distribution of this energy was used to compute the extinction coefficient for short wave radiation. From 40 to 150 cm depth it is 0.015 cm^–1, somewhat smaller than that of glacier ice.The heat used during the summer to increase the brine volume in the ice acts as a reserve of latent heat during the cooling season. By the time an ice sheet of 300 cm thickness reaches its minimum temperature in March, 3000 cal/cm² have been removed to freeze the brine in the interior of the ice and the meltwater ponds, and 1700 cal/cm² to lower the ice temperature. Based upon the observed mass and temperature changes the total heat exchange at the upper and lower boundary is estimated. During the period May–August the upper boundary received 8.3 kcal/cm², while during the period September–April 12.8 kcal/cm² were given off to the atmosphere. The results are compared with those ofYakovlev, and considerable disagreement is found with respect to the amounts of heat involved in evaporation and in changes of ice temperature (heat reserve).

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Zusammenfassung Beobachtungen während der Drift von US Drifting Station A zeigen an altem Eis einen jährlichen Massenzuwachs von 12,5 g/cm² Schnee und 52 g/cm² Eis an der Unterseite. Während der Schmelzperioden 1957 und 1958 betrug der Massenverlust an der Oberseite 19,2 bzw. 41,4 g/cm². Das Verhältnis der Ablation auf trockenen Eisflächen zu der in Wassertümpeln beträgt etwa 1:2,5. Etwa 30% der Gesamtfläche werden im Sommer von den Wassertümpeln eingenommen. Die Ablation an der Unterseite durch Wärmezufuhr vom Meer betrug etwa 22 cm (Juli bis August/September).Die Methoden der Messung des Massenhaushalts werden beschrieben. In Anbetracht ihrer Bedeutung als Kontrolle des berechneten Wärmehaushalts wird ihre Genauigkeit näher untersucht.Die Wärmebilanz der Eisoberfläche wird für einen ausgewählten Zeitraum während des Maximums der Ablationsperiode berechnet. Es ergeben sich folgende mittlere Tagessummen in cal/cm²: +142 kurzwellige Strahlungsbilanz, –8 langwellige Strahlungsbilanz, +9 Konvektionswärmestrom. –11 Verdunstung. Die mittlere tägliche Oberflächen-Ablation betrug in dieser Zeit 0,8 cm. Etwa 90% davon werden durch Absorption kurzwelliger Strahlung verursacht.Nur 62% des gesamten Wärmeangebotes werden an der Oberfläche umgesetzt. 38% gelangen in tiefere Schichten und werden dort hauptsächlich zur Vergrößerung des Volumens der Salzlösung verwendet. Die vertikale Verteilung dieser Energie wird zur Berechnung des Extinktionskoeffizienten für kurzwellige Strahlung herangezogen. In einer Tiefe von 40 bis 150 cm ergibt sich ein Wert von 0,015 cm^–1, etwas weniger als in Gletschereis.Die Wärmemenge, welche im Sommer zur Erhöhung der Eistemperatur und der damit verbundenen Vergrößerung des Volumens der Salzlösung aufgewendet wurde, dient während der Abkühlungsperiode als Wärmereserve. Von ihrem Beginn bis zur Erreichung minimaler Eistemperaturen in März werden einer 3 m dicken Eisdecke 3000 cal/cm² an latenter Wärme (Verkleinerung des Volumens der Salzlösung und Gefrieren der Schmelzwassertümpel) und 1700 cal/cm² mit der reinen Temperaturerniedrigung entzogen. Auf Grund der beobachteten Massen- und Temperaturänderungen der Eisdecke wird der gesamte Wärmeumsatz an ihren Grenzflächen abgeschätzt. Während der Periode Mai bis August erhält die Oberfläche des Eises 8,3 kcal/cm² während in der Periode September bis April 12,8 kcal/cm² an die Atmosphäre abgegeben werden. Die Resultate werden mit denen vonYakovlev verglichen, wobei sich beträchtliche Unterschiede in den Beträgen der Verdunstung und der Wärmereserve der Eisdecke ergeben. Im Zusammenhang mit den unterschiedlichen Beträgen der Wärmereserve wird die spezifische Wärme des Meereises näher diskutiert.

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Résumé Les observations faites lors de la dérive du US drifting station A font apparaître un accroissement annuel de masse de la banquise de 12,5 g/cm² sous forme de niege et de 52 g/cm² par congélation à la base. Pendant les périodes de fonte de 1957 et de 1958, la perte de masse à la surface fut de 19,2 et 41,4 g/cm² respectivement. Le rapport de l'ablation sur la glace sèche à celle des flaques est de 1:2,5. Les flaques occupent en été env. 30% de la surface totale. L'ablation à la face inférieure de la banquise par la chaleur de l'eau fut d'environ 22 cm (Juillet à août/septembre).On décrit les méthodes de mesure du bilan de masse et leur précision. On calcule ce bilan de chaleur à la surface au moment du maximum d'ablation et on en donne les composantes suivantes pour les sommes journalières moyennes en cal/cm²: bilan radiatif de courte longueur d'onde +142, bilan radiatif de grande longueur d'onde –8, flux de convection +9, évaporation –11. L'ablation superficielle moyenne est de 0,8 cm par jour dont 90% résulte de l'absorption du rayonnement à courte longueur d'onde.Le 62% seulement de l'apport de chaleur est transformé à la surface de la glace; le 38% pénètre en profondeur et sert surtout à accroître le volume du mélange salin. A une profondeur de 40 à 150 cm le coefficient d'exctinction pour le rayonnement court est de 0,015 cm^–1, plus faible que dans le glacier terrestre.La quantité de chaleur accumulée en été sert de réserve pendant la période froide pour élever la température de la glace et pour augmenter le volume de la solution saline. Du début de celle-ci jusqu'au minimum des températures en mars, une couche de 3 m d'épaisseur perd 3000 cal/cm² en chaleur latente et 1700 cal/cm² par chute de température. Il est possible d'estimer le bilan total de chaleur des surfaces de la glace à l'aide des variations observées de masse et de température. Pedant la période de mai à août, la surface de la glace reçoit 8,3 kcal/cm², tandis qu'elle cède à l'air 12,8 kcal/cm² de septembre à avril. Les résultats obtenus diffèrent de ceux deYakovlev dans les quantités de l'évaporation et de la réserve calorifique de la glace. Discussion au sujet de la chaleur spécifique de la glace de banquise.

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The field work was carried out while on leave from the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Wien.     

Surface energy and radiation budget over a tropical station: An observational study

This study attempts to understand the variations in the radiation and surface energy budget parameters during days of occurrence and non occurrence of convective activity such as thunderstorms at Ranchi (23°25??N, 85°26??E), India using the special experimental data sets obtained during pre-monsoon month of May, 2008. For this purpose five continuous thunderstorm days (TD) of varying intensity, along with three non-thunderstorm days (NTD) preceding the TD are considered. Thunderstorms occurred at site are multi-cellular in nature. Change of wind direction and strong gusty winds are noticed in TD cases. Pre-dominant wind direction is south westerly for the TD; it is northwesterly during NTD. Sudden drop of air temperature and rise of relative humidity and rise/drop in atmospheric pressure is noticed during TD are found to be proportional to the intensity of thunderstorm event. More partitioning of net radiation (QN) is in to latent heat flux (QE) and the contribution of sensible heat flux (QH) and soil heat flux (QG) are same during TD. But in the NTD more partitioning of QN is in to QH followed by QG that of QE. Significant differences in radiation and energy budget components are noticed during TD and NTD events.     

IPCC AR6报告解读：地球能量收支、气候反馈和气候敏感度

文中对IPCC第六次评估报告（AR6）第一工作组（WGI）报告的第七章关于地球能量收支、气候反馈和气候敏感度中的重要内容进行了凝练,并简要总结该方面的最新研究成果和结论。评估显示,自工业革命以来,人类活动造成的有效辐射强迫（ERF）为2.72 [1.96~3.48] W/m²,其中,均匀混合温室气体的贡献为3.32 [3.03~3.61] W/m²,气溶胶的贡献为-1.1 [-1.7~-0.4] W/m²。净的气候反馈参数为-1.16 [-1.81~-0.51] W/(m²∙℃),云仍然是气候反馈整体不确定性的最大来源。平衡态气候敏感度（ECS）和瞬态气候响应（TCR）可用于评估全球平均地表气温对强迫的响应,是衡量全球气候响应的有效手段。ECS和TCR的最佳估计分别为3.0 [2.0~5.0]℃和1.8 [1.2~2.4]℃。     

Tropical precipitation, SSTs and the surface energy budget: a zonally symmetric perspective

The relative importance of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and the surface energy budget to tropical precipitation is examined by comparing models with zonally symmetric climates, both fixed SST and coupled to a slab mixed layer ocean. Two models are considered with differing surface flux formulations and in each case solutions that are symmetric about the equator are perturbed to create interhemispheric asymmetry. When SSTs are prescribed in the two models with different flux formulations, the magnitude of tropical precipitation response to identical SST anomalies is significantly different, but the differences can be understood in terms of the altered surface fluxes. In contrast, when the net surface energy fluxes are constrained to be identical in mixed layer simulations of the two different models, the response of tropical precipitation to perturbations in the surface energy balance is very similar. Both perspectives predict qualitatively the same precipitation response, but the energy budget better predicts the magnitude of the precipitation response. Thus, we argue that the atmospheric energy budget, controlled in these experiments primarily by the surface energy budget, is more fundamental to the control of tropical precipitation than the SSTs, in these simulations with axisymmetric climates. We touch briefly on a complication in the interpretation of the model results due to the fact that fixed SST and slab-ocean versions of the model can produce different Hadley cell strengths for the same SSTs.     

The energy budget of the Sable Island ocean region

The heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere over cold water is studied by calculating all terms in the energy balance twice each day for the year 1971 for the Sable Island region.

The atmospheric long‐wave radiation is relatively constant because of frequent overcast and low clouds. The surface long‐wave balance is markedly negative in winter but slightly positive for a short time in summer, due to strong advection of warm moist air over the cold water. In winter, the turbulent fluxes are directed upwards and are strong, the upward fluxes beginning after the middle of August and lasting until mid‐March. The maximum daily values of latent heat flux are 400 to 500 ly day^?1 (194 to 242 W m^?2), about a third or a quarter of the magnitude over the warmer Gulf Stream water. The summer fluxes are fairly constant and directed downward.

The water of the Labrador Current in the Sable Island region warms substantially from March to September and conversely cools intensely in the period November‐January.

A comparison of the energy exchange for a current and for water without motion shows that the surface temperatures would be similar in summer, and the temperature drop would be about equal until November. From that time on, the surface temperature would level off for a water body with no current, but in actual conditions the surface temperature continues to drop to a late winter minimum of about 1°C.

Atmospheric advection of latent heat was calculated by assuming that the daily precipitation was always caused first by condensation of all locally evaporated water with any remainder being supplied by water‐vapour advection. The main cause for atmospheric heating in the Sable Island area was found to be condensation of imported water vapour. The region is, in summer, a marked sink for atmospheric heat and water content. For water it remains a sink even in winter. For sensible heat it becomes a source from November to March. The warming of the atmosphere is caused by release of latent heat of advected water vapour in the period February‐August. During the months September‐January the heat sources are both water‐vapour advection and surface turbulent terms.     

A study on hydrogen peroxide in the atmosphere

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentrations were measured at two sites. One was on Lushan Mountain in May, 1987. The other was in Beijing in August, 1987 and in December, 1986. The automated fluorometric method was used for the determination of H2O2. The concentrations of H2O2 ranged from approximately 0.50 to 4.32 ppb on Lushan Mountain. The concentrations of H2O2 ranged from approximately 0.05 to 1.49 ppb in August in Beijing, and it was only 0.01 ppb in December in Beijing.     

Surface energy budget model of a cave

Summary A simple surface energy budget model is developed and validated for an aboriginal rock art site in Western Australia. The thermal regime of the rock face is strongly dependent on the sky view factor for a vertical surface element and the sensible and latent heat fluxes are shown to be relatively unimportant. Using climatological data, the model is extended to form the basis for appropriate environmental management and conservation of the rock art.

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Zusammenfassung Es wird ein einfaches Oberflächenenergiebilanzmodell für eine Höhle mit Felszeichnungen der Eingeborenen in Westaustralien entwickelt und überprüft. Das thermische Regime der Felsoberfläche wird vom Bildwinkel des Himmels für ein vertikales Oberflächenelement dominiert, während sich die Flüsse fühlbarer und latenter Wärme als unbedeutend erwiesen. Die Berücksichtigung von klimatologischen Daten ermöglicht es, damit die Grundlagen für geeignete Umweltund Konservierungsmaßnahmen für das Kunstwerk zu schaffen.

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Inverse modeling of energy transports and budgets of the atmosphere

The vertically integrated horizontal energy transports and the vertically integrated vertical energy flux divergence from ERA-40 and ISCCP are not in balance assuming a stationary climate as a time mean over several years. The reasons are the inherent uncertainties in each of the respective data sets. We therefore modify them using a variational approach with a discretization in spherical harmonics to obtain consistent values. The variational approach only modifies the smaller yet more uncertain divergent part of the flow, leaving the large rotational part untouched. From these consistent fields we can calculate posterior covariance matrices of the vertically integrated horizontal energy transport and the vertically integrated vertical energy flux divergence, providing a measure of the uncertainty of the previous calculation. We are able to use these posterior covariance matrices to give an estimate of the uncertainty of the zonally and vertically integrated meridional energy transport, which is about 0.25 PW in the tropics and 0.04 PW in high latitudes, as well as for the vertical energy flux divergence of the atmosphere, which ranges from 2.5 to 5 W/m² in the tropics to 15–17 W/m² in high latitudes.     

西太平洋热带地区能量和热量的总收支——中美西太平洋海-气合作考察观测事实之五

根据“向阳红14号”考察船在中美海-气考察第一次航程(1986年2月8—14日)所获取的水文气象和日射观测资料,以及特定区域内站点的海洋气象资料,探讨了热带西太平洋有限区域内下垫面和大气的冷、热源以及海气系统向周围大气的能量水平输送的源、汇问题。分析计算指出,在考察期间热带西太平洋地区是一个热量积贮区。     

A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: the impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing

Snow surface and sea-ice energy budgets were measured near 87.5°N during the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS), from August to early September 2008. Surface temperature indicated four distinct temperature regimes, characterized by varying cloud, thermodynamic and solar properties. An initial warm, melt-season regime was interrupted by a 3-day cold regime where temperatures dropped from near zero to ?7°C. Subsequently mean energy budget residuals remained small and near zero for 1 week until once again temperatures dropped rapidly and the energy budget residuals became negative. Energy budget transitions were dominated by the net radiative fluxes, largely controlled by the cloudiness. Variable heat, moisture and cloud distributions were associated with changing air-masses. Surface cloud radiative forcing, the net radiative effect of clouds on the surface relative to clear skies, is estimated. Shortwave cloud forcing ranged between ?50 W m^?2 and zero and varied significantly with surface albedo, solar zenith angle and cloud liquid water. Longwave cloud forcing was larger and generally ranged between 65 and 85 W m^?2, except when the cloud fraction was tenuous or contained little liquid water; thus the net effect of the clouds was to warm the surface. Both cold periods occurred under tenuous, or altogether absent, low-level clouds containing little liquid water, effectively reducing the cloud greenhouse effect. Freeze-up progression was enhanced by a combination of increasing solar zenith angles and surface albedo, while inhibited by a large, positive surface cloud forcing until a new air-mass with considerably less cloudiness advected over the experiment area.     

两种对流参数化方案对辐射能量收支的影响研究

利用中国科学院大气物理研究所大气科学和地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室的格点大气环流模式(GAMIL)1.0版设计了两组数值模拟实验来研究两种不同的对流参数化方案对辐射能量收支的影响.这两种对流参数化方案分别是:Zhang and McFarlance/Hack方案(简称ZM)和Tiedtke/Nordeng方案(简称 TN).对应的数值模拟实验分别取名为EX-ZM和EX-TN.通过对实验结果的分析表明:在对流过程中,EX-ZM允许深对流和浅对流同时发生,因此两种对流同时在模式低层消耗了更多的水汽,释放了更多的潜热,引起了更大的增温;EX_TN每次只允许一种对流发生,也就避免了不同类型的对流在同一层同时消耗水汽的现象.因此对流过后,EX-ZM的环境空气相对湿度较小,而EX-TN周围空气的相对湿度较大,有利于低云云量的生成和大尺度的凝结,因此EX-TN模拟的低云云量偏多,低层的云水含量偏高,模式低层的云光学厚度偏大,这就使得EX_TN中更多的太阳短波辐射通量被云反射掉,严重低估了模式对短波波段的辐射通量的模拟.此外,不同的对流参数化方案通过改变云的长波发射率和降水,进而影响了模式对长波波段的辐射通量、感热和潜热通量的模拟.