Nocturnal meso-beta basin and katabatic flows on a midlatitude island

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 918-932

  Cuxart Rodamilans, Joan ^a   Jimenez M A ^a   Martinez D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

KATABATIC FLOWS; MOUNTAIN RANGE;

WIND;

KATABATIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

GEA;

EID: 34047238717     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3329.1     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Ball, F. K., 1956: The theory of strong katabatic winds. Aust. J. Phys., 9, 373-386.
2. Banta, R. M., L. S. Darby, J. D. Fast, J. O. Pinto, C. D. Whiteman, W. J. Shaw, and B. W. Orr, 2004: Nocturnal low-level jet in mountain basin complex. Part I: Evolution and effects on local flows. J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 1348-1365.
3. Blumen, W., 1984: An observational study of instability and turbulence in nighttime drainage winds. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 28, 245-269.
4. Bougeault, P., and P. Lacarrère, 1989: Parameterization of orography-induced turbulence in a mesobeta scale model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 1872-1890.
5. Charnock, H., 1955: Wind stress in a water surface. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 81, 639-640.
6. Clements, W. E., J. A. Archuleta, and P. H. Gudiksen, 1989: Experimental design of the 1984 ASCOT field experiment. J. Appl. Meteor., 28, 405-413.
7. Cornfeld, C. E., 1938: Katabatic winds and the prevention of frost damage. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 64, 553-584.
8. Coulter, R. L., and P. Gudiksen, 1995: The dependence of canyon winds and surface cooling and external forcing in Colorado's Front Range. J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 1419-1429.
9. Cuxart, J., and M. A. Jiménez, 2007: Mixing processes in a nocturnal low-level jet: An LES study. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
10. Cuxart, J., P. Bougeault, and J.-L. Redelsperger, 2000: A turbulence scheme allowing for mesoscale and large-eddy simulations. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 126, 1-30.
11. Defant, F., 1951: Local winds. Compendium of Meteorology, T. M. Malone, Ed., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 655-672.
12. Doran, J. C., J. D. Fast, and J. Horel, 2002: The VTMX 2000 campaign. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 537-551.
13. Durran, D. R., 1989: Improving the anelastic approximation. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1453-1461.
14. Fleagle, R. G., 1950: A theory of air drainage. J. Meteor., 7, 227-232.
15. Geiger, R., 1965: The Climate near the Ground. Harvard University Press, 611 pp. (Translated from German by Scripta Technica, Inc.)
16. Haiden, T., 2003: On the pressure field in the slope wind layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1632-1635.
17. Haiden, T., and C. D. Whiteman, 2005: Katabatic flow mechanims on a low-angle slope. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 113-126.
18. Hawkes, H. B., 1947: Mountain and valley winds with special reference to the diurnal mountain winds of the Great Salt Lake Region. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 312 pp.
19. Heinemann, G., 2002: Modelling and observations of the katabatic flow dynamics over Greenland. Tellus, 54A, 542-554.
20. Heymann, Y., Ch. Steenmans, G. Croissille, and M. Bossard, 1994: Corine land cover technical guide. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 136 pp.
21. Jiménez, M. A., and J. Cuxart, 2005: Large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer using the standard Kolmogorov theory: Range of applicability. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 115, 241-261.
22. Lafore, J. P., and Coauthors, 1998: The Meso-NH atmospheric simulation system. Part I: Adiabatic formulation and control simulation. Ann. Geophys., 16, 90-109.
23. Mahrt, L., 1982: Momentum balance of gravity flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 39, 2701-2711.
24. Mahrt, L., D. Vickers, R. Nakamura, M. R. Soler, J. L. Sun, S. Burns, and D. H. Lenschow, 2001: Shallow drainage flows. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 101, 243-260.
25. Manins, P. C., and B. L. Sawford, 1979: A model of katabatic winds. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 619-630.
26. Masson, V., 2000: A physically based scheme for the urban energy budget in atmospheric models. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 94, 357-397.
27. Masson, V., J.-L. Champeaux, F. Chauvin, C. Meriguet, and R. Lacaze, 2003: A global database of land surface parameters at 1-km resolution in meteorological and climate models. J. Climate, 16, 1261-1282.
28. McNider, R. T., 1982: A note on velocity fluctuations in drainage flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 39, 1658-1660.
29. Mira, A., J. Cuxart, A. Luque, and J. Guijarro, 2006: Mesoscale basin flows in the nocturnal boundary layer: Modelling and verification. Proc. 17th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, JP5.6.
30. Morcrette, J.-J., 1990: Impact of changes to the radiation transfer parameterizations plus cloud optical properties in the ECMWF model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, 847-873.
31. Nappo, C. J., 2002: An Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves. Academic Press, 276 pp.
32. Noilhan, J., and S. Planton, 1989: A simple parameterization of land surface processes for meteorological models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 536-549.
33. Pahlow, M., M. B. Parlange, and F. Porté-Agel, 1999: On Monin-Obukhov similarity in the stable atmospheric boundary layer. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 99, 225-248.
34. Poulos, G. S., J. E. Bossert, T. B. McKee, and R. A. Pielke, 2000: The interaction of katabatic flow and mountain waves. Part I: Observations and idealized simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1919-1936.
35. Prandtl, L., 1942: Flow Studies (in German). Verlag Vieweg und Sohn, 382 pp.
36. Ramis, C., and R. Romero, 1995: A first numerical simulation of the development and structure of the sea breeze in the island of Mallorca. Ann. Geophys., 13, 981-994.
37. Renfrew, I. A., 2004: The dynamics of idealized katabatic flow over a moderate slope and ice shelf. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 130, 1023-1045.
38. Rotach, M. W., and Coauthors, 2004: Turbulence structure and exchange processes in an alpine valley: The Riviera project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 1367-1385.
39. Stull, R. B., 1988: An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology. Kluwer Academic, 666 pp.
40. Whiteman, C. D., 1990: Observations of thermally developed wind systems in mountainous terrain. Atmospheric Processes over Complex Terrain, Meteor. Monogr., No. 45, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 5-42.
41. Whiteman, C. D., and J. C. Doran, 1993: The relationship between overlying synoptic-scale flows and winds within a valley. J. Appl. Meteor., 32, 1669-1682.
42. Zhong, S., and J. D. Fast, 2003: An evaluation of the MM5, RAMS, and Meso-Eta models at subkilometer resolution using VTMX field campaign data in the Salt Lake Valley. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 1301-1322.