Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions

M Helbig, T Gerken, ER Beamesderfer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The atmospheric boundary layer mediates the exchange of energy, matter, and momentum
between the land surface and the free troposphere, integrating a range of physical …

Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening

G Feingold, VP Ghate, LM Russell, P Blossey… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is the deliberate injection of aerosol particles into shallow
marine clouds to increase their reflection of solar radiation and reduce the amount of energy …

Utilizing a storm-generating hotspot to study convective cloud transitions: The CACTI experiment

AC Varble, SW Nesbitt, P Salio… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign was
designed to improve understanding of orographic cloud life cycles in relation to surrounding …

The probability density function related to shallow cumulus entrainment rate and its influencing factors in a large-eddy simulation

L Zhu, C Lu, X Xu, X He, J Li, S Luo, Y Wang… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2024 - Springer
The process of entrainment-mixing between cumulus clouds and the ambient air is important
for the development of cumulus clouds. Accurately obtaining the entrainment rate (λ) is …

PyFLEXTRKR: A flexible feature tracking Python software for convective cloud analysis

Z Feng, J Hardin, HC Barnes, J Li… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper describes the new open-source framework PyFLEXTRKR (Python FLE**ble
object TRacKeR), a flexible atmospheric feature tracking software package with specific …

Advancing understanding of land–atmosphere interactions by breaking discipline and scale barriers

J Vilà‐Guerau de Arellano… - Annals of the New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation and atmosphere processes are coupled through a myriad of interactions linking
plant transpiration, carbon dioxide assimilation, turbulent transport of moisture, heat and …

[HTML][HTML] The Cloud-resolving model Radar SIMulator (CR-SIM) Version 3.3: description and applications of a virtual observatory

M Oue, A Tatarevic, P Kollias, D Wang… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
Ground-based observatories use multisensor observations to characterize cloud and
precipitation properties. One of the challenges is how to design strategies to best use these …

On the estimation of boundary layer heights: a machine learning approach

R Krishnamurthy, RK Newsom, LK Berg… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
The planetary boundary layer height (zi) is a key parameter used in atmospheric models for
estimating the exchange of heat, momentum, and moisture between the surface and the free …

The Benefits and Challenges of Downscaling a Global Reanalysis With Doubly‐Periodic Large‐Eddy Simulations

BJH van Stratum, CC van Heerwaarden… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global reanalyzes like ERA5 accurately capture atmospheric processes at spatial scales of
km or larger. By downscaling ERA5 with large‐eddy simulation (LES), LES can provide …

On the Sensitivity of Large-Eddy Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Coupled with Realistic Large-Scale Dynamics

P Giani, P Crippa - Monthly Weather Review, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
We present a new ensemble of 36 numerical experiments aimed at comprehensively
gauging the sensitivity of nested large-eddy simulations (LES) driven by large-scale …