Flow around a windbreak in oblique wind

Wind speed was measured near the surface, along a line normal to a single, 50 % porous windbreak. The results for near-neutral atmospheric conditions were strongly dependent on the incidence angle of the wind, a, and slightly dependent on the roughness of the surface. A measure of the shelter effect - the protected distance - was found to decrease faster than cos . The drag coefficient of the windbreak decreased proportionally with cos . The effect of increased roughness was to increase the wind speed near the surface in the lee of the windbreak.     

Atmospheric-stability effect on windbreak shelter and drag

Wind speed was measured near the surface, along a line normal to a single, 50% porous windbreak, to determine its wind-reducing effect. Simultaneously, undisturbed wind and temperature profiles were measured to obtain the atmospheric stability. In some of the runs, the drag on a section of the windbreak was also measured. A systematic and significant effect of the atmospheric stability was found. The relative wind speed at any distance from the windbreak could be expressed for unstable conditions as an empirical function of the Richardson number. As an extreme example, the reduction of the surface shear, at a downwind distance 7.5 times the height of the windbreak, was 86 % in adiabatic conditions, and only 62 % when the gradient Richardson number at the windbreak height was ?1.0. The minimum relative effect was found in the neighborhood of the windbreak, where the windbreak-induced turbulence was dominant. The maximum absolute effect was found at a downwind distance of about ten times the height of the windbreak. The drag coefficient of the windbreak was found to bec _d =0.77 in a neutral atmosphere, increasing slightly with instability. This trend is contrary to the trend of the surface-shear-reduction coefficient, which decreases significantly with instability.     

On the choice of a windbreak porosity profile

Measurements of mean windspeed and turbulence were carried out behind two sections of 50% porous fence differing only in the vertical distribution of their porosity. One section of the fence was uniformly porous, the other relatively dense near the ground and open aloft. Slightly greater mean speed reduction was observed near the ground in the near lee of the section which was dense at ground-level without any detrimental increase in turbulence. However, this advantage was offset by less effective protection in the far lee. These findings are consistent with earlier work by Gandemer (1979) and with the predictions of a numerical model of windbreak flow.     

热带运动的尺度分析

本文对热带大尺度运动的动力学特征作了尺度分析,与Charney不同,在文中首先引进热带经向宽度动力学定义,分析表明,在这种情况下,热带运动的性质将因其纬向尺度与这个经向宽度之比而异。当这个比值的量级为O(1)时,运动是层结三维的,当这个比值的量级甚大于O(1)时,类似于Charney的结果,运动将趋于正压化。     

不稳定城市边界层中的垂直运动

本文利用二层模式得出线性化大气动力热力学方程组的解析解,用于研究城市表面加热引起的不稳定城市边界层中的垂直运动.解析解表明,不稳定边界层中的垂直运动由城市热山所形成的过山波和背风波两部分组成.两种波动的叠加使得上升运动发生于城市中心和城市下风向部分,形成对流活动的多发区.最后还从理论角度讨论了城市边界层厚度的空间变化.     

低层大气运动的浑沌吸引子

本文应用低层大气的实测资料以及重构相空间的方法,研究了低层大气运动的浑沌特征,结果发现,在低层大气运动中浑沌吸引子是存在的。就本文给出的四个实例而言,它们的关联维数和最大的李雅普诺夫指数分别在5.5与7.3之间和0.037与0.046bit/s之间。上述结果对大气运动模式的评估、大气观测方案的设计以及低层大气可预报性问题的研究是有重要参考价值的。     

Characterization of Coherent structures in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

The ramplike coherent structures, observed in the temporal series of temperature and humidity in the atmospheric surface layer, are analyzed using the intermittency function and the wavelet transforms, with Haar, D4 and Mexican Hat functions as mother wavelets, in order to find the most efficient conditional sampling technique. It was found that the intermittency function and the wavelet transform, using Mexican Hat as mother wavelet, are the only ones that sample structures that fulfill the ramplike coherent structures definition of a slow rise followed by a sudden drop in the temporal series. The conditionally averaged structures detected by both techniques were similar for temperature, humidity, and vertical velocity at heights of 3, 5, and 9.4 m. Significant discrepancies were found among the conditional averaged structures detected by both techniques for zonal and meridional components of the wind at 11.5 m. Considering both techniques, it was observed that the averagedcoherent-structure duration ranged from 23.7 ± 0.5 s to 37.8 ± 3.0 s. Furthermore, the averaged number of events per 20-minute period ranged from 20.0 ± 1.0 to 28.5 ± 1.1, and the averaged intermittency factor from 45.0 ± 0.4% to 59.1 ± 1.3%. It was also observed that the averaged duration of the ramplike coherent structures increases with height, while their intensity, number, and intermittency factor decrease. Despite the good matching obtained for temperature and humidity, the coherent-structure properties did not show the expected variation with wind speed, stability parameter, and friction velocity. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test indicated that the intermittent function and the wavelet transform did not detect coherent structures belonging to the same population.     

Coherent structures in the very stable atmospheric boundary layer

This study examines the structure of horizontal modes (meandering, vortical modes or fossil turbulence) in a layer of intermittent turbulence occurring at the top of a strongly stratified nocturnal inversion layer as observed by fast response aircraft data. The spatial variation of the coefficients of the principal components identify regular coherent structures with mainly horizontal motions. Conditional sampling is formulated in terms of this spatial variation. The quasi-horizontal motions are characterized by relatively sharp edges (transition zones) where horizontal convergence or divergence, small-scale turbulence and vertical fluxes seem to be concentrated. Zones of horizontal divergence appear to be associated with ejection of cold air from the underlying surface inversion while the convergent zones might be due to random collisions between horizontal modes.     

Variational principle of instability of atmospheric motions

Problems of instability of rotating atmospheric motions are investigated by using nonlinear governing equations and the variational principle. The method suggested in this paper is universal for obtaining criteria of instability in all models with all possible basic flows. For example, the model can be barotropic or baroclinic, layer or continuous, quasi-geostrophic or primitive equations; the basic flow can be zonal or nonzonal, steady or unsteady.Although the basic flows possess a great deal of variety, they all are the stationary points in the functional space determined by an appropriate invariant functional. The basic flow is an unsteady one if the conservation of angular momentum is included in the associated functional.The second variation, linear or nonlinear, gives the criteria of instability. Especially, the general criteria of instability for unsteady basic flow, orographically disturbed flow as well as nongeostrophic flow are first obtained by the method described in this paper.It is also shown that the difference between the criteria of instability obtained by the linear theory and our variational principle clearly indicates the importance of using nonlinear governing equations.In the appendix the theory is extended to cases such as in a β-plane where the fluid does not possess finite total energy, hence the variational principle can not be directly applied. However, a generalized Liapounoff norm can still be obtained on the basis of variational consideration.     

Questions concerning the energy of stratospheric motions

Summary In this article the theoretical conclusion, is reached that the vertical transport of kinetic energy in the atmosphere from one horizontal layer to another is effected solely by an area integral over the internal boundary, of the kinetic energy per unit volume multiplied by the vertical velocity. Speculations are made as to whether the kinetic energy in stratospheric levels is maintained against friction through such a vertical transport from other levels, or whether the needed supply is derived from convective sourcesin situ.

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Zusammenfassung Auf Grund theoretischer Überlegungen wird der Schluß gezogen, daß der Vertikaltransport kinetischer Energie in der Atmosphäre von einer horizontalen Schicht zu einer anderen einzig durch ein Flächenintegral über die Grenzfläche bestimmt wird, dessen Integrand das Produkt aus kinetischer Energie pro Volumeinheit und der Vertikalgeschwindigkeit ist. Es werden Überlegungen angestellt, ob die kinetische Energie in Stratosphärenschichten gegenüber der Reibung durch einen solchen Vertikaltransport aufrechterhalten werden kann oder ob der benötigte Nachschub von konvektiven Quellen in der Schicht selbst stammt.

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Résumé Se fondant sur des considérations théoriques, l'auteur arrive à la conclusion que le transport vertical d'énergie cinétique dans l'atmosphère, d'une couche horizontale à une autre, est uniquement déterminée par une intégrale de surface étendue à la surface limite, et dont l'intégrande est égale au produit de l'énergie cinétique par unité de volume par la vitesse verticale. Il discute la question de savoir si l'énergie cinétique d'une couche stratosphérique, en raison du frottement, est maintenue par un tel transport vertical ou si l'énergie d'entretien provient de sources convectives de la couche elle-même.

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The research reported in this paper has been made possible through the support of the Geophysics Research Directorate of the U. S. Air Force under contract AF 19(604)-5223.     

The structure and bifurcation of atmospheric motions

The 3-D spiral structure resulting from the balance between the pressure gradient force, Coriolis force, and viscous force is a common atmospheric motion pattern. If the nonlinear advective terms are considered, this typical pattern can be bifurcated. It is shown that the surface low pressure with convergent cyclonic vorticity and surface high pressure with divergent anticyclonic vorticity are all stable under certain conditions. The anomalous structure with convergent anticyclonic vorticity is always unstable. But the anomalous weak high pressure structure with convergent cyclonic vorticity can exist, and this denotes the cyclone‘s dying out.     

Coherent Turbulent Structures Across a Vegetation Discontinuity

The study of turbulent flow across a vegetation discontinuity is of significant interest as such landscape features are common, and as there is no available theory to describe this regime adequately. We have simulated the three-dimensional dynamics of the airflow across a discontinuity between a forest (with a leaf area index of 4) and a clearing surface using large-eddy simulation. The properties of the bulk flow, as well as the large-scale coherent turbulent structures across the forest-to-clearing transition and the clearing-to-forest transition, are systematically explored. The vertical transport of the bulk flow upstream of the leading edge gives rise to the enhanced gust zone around the canopy top, while the transport downstream of the trailing edge leads to the formation of a recirculation zone above the clearing surface. The large-scale coherent structures across the two transitions exhibit both similarities with and differences from those upstream of the corresponding transition. For example, the ejection motion is dominant over the sweep motion in most of the region 1?<?z/h < 2 (h is the canopy height) immediately downstream of the trailing edge, much as in the forested area upstream. Also, the streamwise vortex pair, which has previously been observed within the canopy sublayer and the atmospheric boundary layer, is consistently found across both transitions. However, the inflection observed both in the mean streamwise velocity, as well as in the vertical profiles of the coherent structures in the forested area, disappears gradually across the forest-to-clearing transition. The coherence of the turbulence, quantified by the percentage of the total turbulence kinetic energy that the coherent structures capture from the flow, decreases sharply immediately downstream of the trailing edge of the forest and increases downstream of the leading edge of the forest. The effects of the ratio of the forest/clearing lengths under a given streamwise periodicity on flow statistics and coherent turbulent structures are presented as well.     

Coherent Flow Structures and Pollutant Dispersion in a Street Canyon

Boundary-Layer Meteorology - Coherent flow structures and pollutant dispersion in a spanwise-long street canyon are investigated using a parallelized large-eddy-simulation model. Low- and...     

热带平流层低层的对称运动和反对称运动

文章从对赤道β平面上静止大气中线性方程分解着手,得出控制对称运动和反对称运动方程组,对方程求解,从理论上证实在热带子流层低层中存在两种特殊性质的运动即对称运动和反对称运动,并证实赤道Kelvin波是典型的对称运动,而混合罗斯贝-重力波是反对称运动。文章分析了非绝热加热对对称运动和反对称运动的影响,当非绝热加热为唯一的外源扰动时,对称的非绝热加热是产生Kelvin波的重要条件,而反对称的非绝热加热是产生赤道区域平流层混合罗斯贝-重力波的重要条件。另外,随着非绝热加热增加,对称运动和反对称运动强度也增加。     

On the Nonlinear Stability of Three-Dimensional Quasigeostrophic Motions in Spherical Geometry

Nonlinear Mobility criteria for the motions geoverned by three-dimensional quasigeostrophic model in spherical geometry are obtained by using Arnol’d’s variational principle and a priori estimate method. The results gained in this paper are parallel to Arnol’d’s second theorem and better than the known results. Especially, under the approxima-tion of vertically integrated nondivergency, criteria corresponding to Arnol’d’s second theorem are first established by a detailed analysis.     

Observations of Coherent Turbulence Structures in the Near-Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Turbulence structures of high Reynolds number flow in the near-neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) are investigated based on observations at Shionomisaki and Shigaraki, Japan. A Doppler sodar measured the vertical profiles of winds in the ABL. Using the integral wavelet transform for the time series of surface wind data, the pattern of a descending high-speed structure with large vertical extent (from the surface to more than 200-m level) is depicted from the Doppler sodar data. Essentially this structure is a specific type of coherent structure that has been previously shown in experiments on turbulent boundary-layer flows. Large-scale high-speed structures in the ABL are extracted using a long time scale (240 s) for the wavelet transform. The non-dimensional interval of time between structures is evaluated as 3.0–6.2 in most cases. These structures make a large contribution to downward momentum transfer in the surface layer. Quadrant analyses of the turbulent motion measured by the sonic anemometer (20-m height) suggest that the sweep motion (high-speed downward motion) plays a substantial role in the downward momentum transfer. In general, the contribution of sweep motions to the momentum flux is nearly equal to that of ejection motions (low-speed upward motions). This contribution of sweep motions is related to the large-scale high-speed structures.     

Coherent Doppler Lidar Measurements of Wind Field Statistics

Coherent Doppler lidar measurements of wind statistics in the boundary layer are presented. The effects of the spatial averaging by the lidar pulse are removed using theoretical corrections and computer simulations. This permits unbiased estimates of velocity variance, spatial velocity structure functions, energy dissipation rate, and other point statistics of the velocity field.     

Coherent eddies and turbulence in vegetation canopies: The mixing-layer analogy

This paper argues that the active turbulence and coherent motions near the top of a vegetation canopy are patterned on a plane mixing layer, because of instabilities associated with the characteristic strong inflection in the mean velocity profile. Mixing-layer turbulence, formed around the inflectional mean velocity profile which develops between two coflowing streams of different velocities, differs in several ways from turbulence in a surface layer. Through these differences, the mixing-layer analogy provides an explanation for many of the observed distinctive features of canopy turbulence. These include: (a) ratios between components of the Reynolds stress tensor; (b) the ratio K _H/K _M of the eddy diffusivities for heat and momentum; (c) the relative roles of ejections and sweeps; (d) the behaviour of the turbulent energy balance, particularly the major role of turbulent transport; and (e) the behaviour of the turbulent length scales of the active coherent motions (the dominant eddies responsible for vertical transfer near the top of the canopy). It is predicted that these length scales are controlled by the shear length scale % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaamitamaaBa% aaleaacaWGtbaabeaakiabg2da9iaadwfacaGGOaGaamiAaiaacMca% caGGVaGabmyvayaafaGaaiikaiaadIgacaGGPaaaaa!3FD0!\[L_S = U(h)/U'(h)\] (where h is canopy height, U(z) is mean velocity as a function of height z, and % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGabmyvayaafa% Gaeyypa0JaaeizaiaadwfacaGGVaGaaeizaiaadQhaaaa!3C32!\[U' = {\rm{d}}U/{\rm{d}}z\]). In particular, the streamwise spacing of the dominant canopy eddies is _x = mL _s, with m = 8.1. These predictions are tested against many sets of field and wind-tunnel data. We propose a picture of canopy turbulence in which eddies associated with inflectional instabilities are modulated by larger-scale, inactive turbulence, which is quasi-horizontal on the scale of the canopy.