Parametrization of Heterogeneous Snowmelt |
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Authors: | R Essery |
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Institution: | (1) Hadley Centre, London Road, Bracknell, U.K., GB |
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Abstract: | Summary Melting snow is often patchy, and advection of heat from warm patches of snow-free ground can accelerate the melting. For
large-scale atmospheric modelling applications, snowmelt rates and fluxes of heat and moisture over surfaces with snow cover
distributed on scales too small to be resolved by the model grid have to be parametrized. In this paper, a boundary-layer
model is used to model advection over surfaces with short vegetation and varying fractions of snow cover. Boundary-layer model
results are used to assess the performance of a tile model, which calculates separate fluxes for snow-covered and snow-free
fractions of the surface given area-average temperatures, humidities and windspeeds at a reference height in the atmosphere.
It is found that the tile model can give good results, but its performance depends strongly on the choice of reference height.
Received August 21, 1997 Revised February 23, 1998 |
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