On the consideration of mesoscale transports in climate modelling |
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Authors: | G Heinemann |
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Institution: | Meteorologisches Institut der Universit?t Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Abstract: | Summary The dynamical effect of land surface heterogeneity on heat fluxes in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is investigated
using numerical simulations with a non-hydrostatic model over a wide range of grid resolutions. It is commonly assumed that
mesoscale or dynamical fluxes associated with mesoscale and convective circulations simulated by a high-resolution model (subgrid
(SG) model) on the subgrid scale of a climate model (large-scale (LS) model) represent additional processes in the ABL, which
are not considered by the turbulence scheme of the LS-model, and which can be parameterized using the SG-model. The present
study investigates the usefulness of this methodology for small-scale and large-scale idealized heterogeneities using a SG-model
resolving mesoscale or even microscale circulations to compute the mesoscale fluxes on the scale of the LS-model. It is shown
that the dynamical transports as derived from the SG-model should not be used to correct the parameterized turbulent fluxes
of the LS-model. The reason is that the subgrid circulations simulated by the SG-model interact with the fields of wind and
scalars in the ABL, which results in reduced turbulent fluxes in the ABL. Thus the methodology of previous studies to use
mesoscale/dynamical fluxes for the correction of flux profiles simulated by climate models seems to be questionable. |
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