An Improved Model for the Turbulent PBL

By Y. Cheng, V. Canuto, A. Howard. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering

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Incorporating the effect of small‐scale circulations upon dust emission in an atmospheric general circulation model (2004, methodology): “[10] The PBL is simulated using a second-order turbulence model [Hartke and Rind, 1997; Mellor and Yamada, 1982; Canuto et al., 1994; Cheng et al., 2002], applied to a secondary grid of eight levels nested between the surface and the middle of the first AGCM layer, a depth of roughly 200 m. Mixing…”
Turbulence energetics in stably stratified geophysical flows: Strong and weak mixing regimes (2008, background): “…1987; Hunt et al., 1988; Canuto and Minotti, 1993; Schumann and Gerz, 1995; Hanazaki and Hunt, 1996; Keller and van Atta, 2000; Canuto et al., 2001; Stretch et al., 2001; Cheng et al., 2002; Luyten et al., 2002; Jin et al., 2003; Hanazaki and Hunt, 2004; Rehmann and Hwang, 2005; Umlauf, 2005).”
Efficacy of climate forcings (2005, background): “an improved second order closure model to represent turbulence throughout the troposphere [Cheng et al., 2002], achieving a more realistic profile of low clouds than”
A Hierarchy of Energy- and Flux-Budget (EFB) Turbulence Closure Models for Stably-Stratified Geophysical Flows (2011, background): “, Kaimal and Finnigan (1994), Kurbatsky (2000) and Cheng et al. (2002). Other notations in Eqs.”
‘Application of a New Spectral Theory of Stably Stratified Turbulence to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Sea Ice’ (2005, methodology): “A wellknown Reynolds stress model widely used in meteorological and oceanographic applications is the Mellor-Yamada (MY) model and its modifications (Mellor and Yamada, 1982; Galperin et al., 1988, 1989; Galperin and Kantha, 1989; Galperin and Mellor, 1991; Kantha and Clayson; 1994, Kantha, 2003).”
Constraining the magnitude of the global dust cycle by minimizing the difference between a model and observations (2006, methodology): “…planetary boundary layer (PBL) is simulated using a non-local, second-order model of turbulence that extends throughout the depth of the atmosphere [Cheng et al., 2002], an improvement to the previous version of the GISS model where turbulent mixing occurred only up to the middle of the first…”
Energy- and flux-budget (EFB) turbulence closure model for stably stratified flows. Part I: steady-state, homogeneous regimes (2006, methodology): “…[with the components 3iτ = wui (i=1,2) representing the vertical flux of momentum] can be found, e.g., in Kaimal and Fennigan (1994), Kurbatsky (2000) and Cheng et al. (2002): Kz j i ijK K F x U Dt DE εβτ −+ ∂ ∂ −=⋅∇+ Φ or approximately zDt DE KK ∂ Φ∂ + Kz i i Fz U εβτ −+ ∂ ∂ −≈ 3…”
Mineral dust aerosols in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences ModelE atmospheric general circulation model (2006, methodology): “Mixing within the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is now based upon a non-local parameterization [ Cheng et al., 2002, 2003, 2004 ].”
Feedback upon dust emission by dust radiative forcing through the planetary boundary layer (2004, background): “A more recent PBL parameterization within the GISS AGCM [Cheng et al., 2002] results in strong daytime winds that persist throughout the early afternoon.”
Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing (2008, background): “For the pressure–strain correlators a plethora of closures may be found in the literature (see e.g. Mellor and Yamada, 1974; Launder et al., 1975; Kantha and Clayson, 1994; Canuto et al., 2001, 2002; Cheng et al., 2002; Umlauf and Burchard, 2005).”
THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (2011, methodology): “Later, the LRR models were also adapted to geophysical flows [e.g., Canuto et al., 2001; Cheng et al., 2002].”
Development of an Improved Turbulence Closure Model for the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (2009, methodology): “…on excluding singular solutions (e.g., Mellor and Yamada 1982; Galperin et al. 1988; Helfand and Labraga 1988; Gerrity et al. 1994; Janjić 2002), several authors did attempt to improve the problems described above (e.g., Gambo 1978; Sun and Ogura 1980; Kantha and Clayson 1994; Cheng et al. 2002).”