Stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers

L Mahrt - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Atmospheric boundary layers with weak stratification are relatively well described by
similarity theory and numerical models for stationary horizontally homogeneous conditions …

Effects of thermal stability and incoming boundary-layer flow characteristics on wind-turbine wakes: a wind-tunnel study

LP Chamorro, F Porté-Agel - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2010 - Springer
Wind-tunnel experiments were carried out to study turbulence statistics in the wake of a
model wind turbine placed in a boundary-layer flow under both neutral and stably stratified …

The critical Richardson number and limits of applicability of local similarity theory in the stable boundary layer

AA Grachev, EL Andreas, CW Fairall, PS Guest… - Boundary-layer …, 2013 - Springer
Measurements of atmospheric turbulence made over the Arctic pack ice during the Surface
Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment (SHEBA) are used to determine the limits of …

[HTML][HTML] A conceptual view on inertial oscillations and nocturnal low-level jets

BJH Van de Wiel, AF Moene… - Journal of the …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
In the present work Blackadar's concept of nocturnal inertial oscillations is extended.
Blackadar's concept describes frictionless inertial oscillations above the nocturnal inversion …

A climatology of nocturnal low-level jets at Cabauw

P Baas, FC Bosveld, H Klein Baltink… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
A climatology of nocturnal low-level jets (LLJs) is presented for the topographically flat
measurement site at Cabauw, the Netherlands. LLJ characteristics are derived from a 7-yr …

An overview of low‐level jet winds and corresponding mixed layer depths during PECAN

BJ Carroll, BB Demoz… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Thirty southerly low‐level jet (LLJ) events were observed during the Plains Elevated
Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign in the Great Plains region of the United States …

Coupled mesoscale‐LES modeling of a diurnal cycle during the CWEX‐13 field campaign: From weather to boundary‐layer eddies

D Muñoz‐Esparza, JK Lundquist… - Journal of Advances …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Multiscale modeling of a diurnal cycle of real‐world conditions is presented for the first time,
validated using data from the CWEX‐13 field experiment. Dynamical downscaling from …

Non-stationary generation of weak turbulence for very stable and weak-wind conditions

L Mahrt, C Thomas, S Richardson, N Seaman… - Boundary-layer …, 2013 - Springer
Turbulence measurements for very stable conditions near the surface are contrasted among
three sites: a high altitude basin during winter with grass or snow-covered grass, a broad …

Variability and maintenance of turbulence in the very stable boundary layer

L Mahrt - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2010 - Springer
The relationship of turbulence quantities to mean flow quantities, such as the Richardson
number, degenerates substantially for strong stability, at least in those studies that do not …

Bulk mixing and decoupling of the nocturnal stable boundary layer characterized using a ubiquitous natural tracer

AG Williams, S Chambers, A Griffiths - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2013 - Springer
Vertical mixing of the nocturnal stable boundary layer (SBL) over a complex land surface is
investigated for a range of stabilities, using a decoupling index (0< D_ rb< 1 0< D rb< 1) …