Scalar turbulence in convective boundary layers by changing the entrainment flux

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 248-265

  Lanotte, Alessandra S ^a   Mazzitelli, Irene M ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENTRAINMENT FLUX; HOMOGENEOUS SURFACES; SCALAR TURBULENCES; SURFACE EMISSIONS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTRAINMENT; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TRACE GAS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84874952624     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0330.1     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Antonelli, M., A. Mazzino, and U. Rizza, 2003: Statistics of temperature fluctuations in a buoyancy-dominated boundary layer flow simulated by a large eddy simulation model. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 215-224.
2. Antonelli, M., A. Lanotte, and A. Mazzino, 2007: Anisotropies and universality of buoyancy-dominated turbulent fluctuations: A large-eddy simulation study. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2642-2656.
3. Antonia, R., A. Chambers, C. Friehe, and C. Van Atta, 1979: Temperature ramps in the atmospheric surface layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 99-108.
4. Biferale, L., and I. Procaccia, 2005: Anisotropy in turbulent flows and in turbulent transport. Phys. Rep., 414 (2-3), 43-164.
5. Bou-Zeid, E., C. Meneveau, and M. Parlange, 2005: A scaledependent Lagrangian dynamic model for large eddy simulations of complex turbulent flows. Phys. Fluids, 17, 025105, doi:10.1063/1.1839152.
6. Canut, G., F. Couvreux, M. Lothon, D. Pino, and F. Saiïd, 2012: Observations and large-eddy simulations of entrainment in the sheared Sahelian boundary layer. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 142, 79-101.
7. Celani, A., A. Lanotte, A. Mazzino, and M. Vergassola, 2000: Universality and saturation of intermittency in passive scalar turbulence. Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 2385-2388.
8. Celani, A., A. Lanotte, A. Mazzino, and M. Vergassola, 2001: Fronts in passive scalar turbulence. Phys. Fluids, 13, 1768-1783.
9. Chen, Q., and C. Tong, 2006: Investigation of the subgrid-scale stress and its production rate in a convective atmospheric boundary layer using measurement data. J. Fluid Mech., 547, 65-104.
10. Deardorff, J., 1970: Convective velocity and temperature scales for the unstable planetary boundary layer and for Rayleigh convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 27, 1211-1212.
11. Deardorff, J., 1972: Numerical investigation of neutral and unstable planetary boundary layers. J. Atmos. Sci., 29, 91-115.
12. Deardorff, J., 1974: Three-dimensional numerical study of the height and mean structure of a heated planetary boundary layer. Bound.- Layer Meteor., 7, 81-106.
13. Deardorff, J., 1979: Prediction of convective mixed-layer entrainment for realistic capping inversion structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 424-436.
14. Deardorff, J., G. Willis, and B. Stockton, 1980: Laboratory studies of the entrainment zone of a convectively mixed layer. J. FluidMech., 100, 41-64.
15. Dimotakis, P. E., 2005: Turbulent mixing. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 37, 329-356.
16. Edouard, S., B. Legras, F. Lefevre, and R. Eymard, 1996: The effect of small-scale inhomogeneities on ozone depletion in the arctic. Nature, 384, 444-447.
17. Fedorovich, E., and R. Conzemius, 2008: Effects of wind shear on the atmospheric convective boundary-layer structure and evolution. Acta Geophys., 56, 114-141.
18. Fedorovich, E., R. Conzemius,and D. Mironov, 2004: Convective entrainment into a shear-free, linearly stratified atmosphere: Bulk models reevaluated through large eddy simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 281-295.
19. Frisch, U., 1995: Turbulence: The Legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov. Cambridge University Press, 312 pp.
20. Gao, W., R. H. Shaw, and K. T. Paw U, 1989: Observation of organized structure in turbulent flow within and above a forest canopy. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 47, 349-377.
21. Germano, M., U. Piomelli, P. Moin, and W. Cabot, 1991: A dynamic subgrid-scale eddy viscosity model. Phys. Fluids, 3A, 1760-1765.
22. Geurts, B., 2003: Elements of Direct and Large-Eddy Simulations. Edwards, 329 pp.
23. Ghosal, S., T. Lund, P. Moin, and K. Aksevoll, 1995: A dynamic localization model for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows. J. Fluid Mech., 286, 229-255.
24. Huang, H.-Y., B. Stevens, and S. A. Margulis, 2008: Application of dynamic subgrid-scale models for large-eddy simulation of the daytime convective boundary-layer over heterogeneous surfaces. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 126, 327-348.
25. Huang, J., X. Lee, and E. G. Patton, 2008: A modelling study of flux imbalance and the influence of entrainment in the convective boundary layer. Bound.-LayerMeteor., 127, 273-292.
26. Huang, J., X. Lee, and E. Patton, 2009: Dissimilarity of scalar transport in the convective boundary layer in inhomogeneous landscapes. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 130, 327-345.
27. Huang, J., X. Lee, and E. G. Patton, 2011: Entrainment and budgets of heat, water vapor, and carbon dioxide in a convective boundary layer driven by time-varying forcing. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D06308, doi:10.1029/2010JD014938.
28. Jonker, H. J. J., P. G. Duynkerke, and J. W. M. Cuijpers, 1999: Mesoscale fluctuations in scalars generated by boundary layer convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 801-808.
29. Lilly, D., 1962: On the numerical simulation of buoyant convection. Tellus, 14, 148-172.
30. Lilly, D., 1968: Models of cloud-topped mixed layers under a strong inversion. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 94, 292-309.
31. Lilly, D., 1992: A proposed modification of the germano subgrid-scale closure method. Phys. Fluids, 4A, 633-635.
32. Mahrt, L., 1991: Boundary-layer moisture regimes. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 117, 151-176.
33. Mason, P., 1989: Large-eddy simulation of the convective atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1492-1516.
34. Mazzitelli, I., and A. S. Lanotte, 2011: Active and passive scalar intermittent statistics in turbulent atmospheric convection. Physica D, 241, 251-259, doi:10.1016/j.physd.2011.07.009.
35. Meneveau, C., and J. Katz, 2000: Scale-invariance and turbulence models for large-eddy simulation. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 32, 1-32.
36. Meneveau, C.,T. Lund, and W. Cabot, 1996:ALagrangian dynamic subgridscale model of turbulence. J. Fluid Mech., 319, 353-385.
37. Moene, A. F., B. I. Michels, and A. A. M. Holtslag, 2006: Scaling variances of scalars in a convective boundary layer under different entrainment regimes. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 120, 257-274.
38. Moeng, C., 1984: A large-eddy-simulation model for the study of planetary boundary-layer turbulence. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 2052-2062.
39. Moeng, C., and J. Wyngaard, 1984: Statistics of conservative scalars in the convective boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 3161-3169.
40. Moeng, C., and P. Sullivan, 1994: A comparison of shear and buoyancy driven boundary layer flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 999-1022.
41. Nieuwstadt, F. T. M., P. J. Mason, C.-H. Moeng, and U. Schumann, 1993: Large-eddy simulation of the convective boundary layer: Acomparison of four computer codes. Turbulent Shear Flows 8, F. Durst et al. Eds., Springer-Verlag, 343-367.
42. Paw U, K. T., Y. Brunet, S. Collineau, R. Shaw, T. Maitani, J. Qiu, and L. Hipps, 1992: On coherent structures in turbulence above and within agricultural plant canopies. Agric. For. Meteor., 61, 55-68.
43. Piomelli, U., 1993: High Reynolds number calculations using the dynamic subgrid-scale stress model. Phys. Fluids, 5A, 1484- 1490.
44. Pope, S. B., 2000: Turbulent Flows. Cambridge University Press, 806 pp.
45. Porteé-Agel, F., C. Meneveau, and M. Parlange, 2000: A scaledependent dynamic model for large-eddy simulation: Application to a neutral atmospheric boundary layer. J. Fluid Mech., 415, 261-284.
46. Sagaut, P., 2006: Large Eddy Simulation for Incompressible Flows: An Introduction. 3rd ed. Springer, 585 pp.
47. Shraiman, B. I., and E. D. Siggia, 2000: Scalar turbulence. Nature, 405, 639-646.
48. Sorbjan, Z., 1999: Similarity of scalar fields in the convective boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2212-2221.
49. Sorbjan, Z., 2004: Large-eddy simulations of the baroclinic mixed layer. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 112, 57-80.
50. Sorbjan, Z., 2005: Statistics of scalar fields in the atmospheric boundary layer based on large-eddy simulations. Part I: Free convection. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 116, 467-486.
51. Sorbjan, Z., 2006: Statistics of scalar fields in the atmospheric boundary layer based on large-eddy simulations. Part II: Forced convection. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 119, 57-79.
52. Stoll, R., and F. Porteé-Agel, 2008: Large-eddy simulation of the stable atmospheric boundary layer using dynamic models with different averaging schemes. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 126, 1-28.
53. Stull, R. B., 1976: The energetics of entrainment across a density interface. J. Atmos. Sci., 33, 1260-1267.
54. Stull, R. B., 1988: An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 683 pp.
55. Sullivan, P., C. Moeng, B. Stevens, D. Lenschow, and S. Mayor, 1998: Structure of the entrainment zone capping the convective atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3042-3064.
56. Tennekes, H., 1973: A model for the dynamics of the inversion above a convective boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 30, 558-567.
57. Tong, C., and Z. Warhaft, 1994: On passive scalar derivative statistics in grid turbulence. Phys. Fluids, 6, 2165-2176.
58. Traïumner, K., Ch. Kottmeier, U. Corsmeier, and A. Wieser, 2011: Convective boundary-layer entrainment: Short review and progress using Doppler lidar. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 141, 369-391.
59. Van Dop, H., D. Van As, A. Van Herwijnen, M. F. Hibberd, and H. Jonker, 2005: Length scales of scalar diffusion in the convective boundary layer: Laboratory observations. Bound.- Layer Meteor., 116, 1-35.
60. Warhaft, Z., 2000: Passive scalars in turbulent flows. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 32, 203-240.
61. Wyngaard, J.C., 1984: Toward convective boundary layer parameterization: A scalar transport module. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 1959-1969.
62. Wyngaard, J. C., 1990: Scalar fluxes in the planetary boundary layer-Theory, modeling, and measurement. Bound.-Layer Meteor., 50, 49-75.
63. Wyngaard, J. C., and R. Brost, 1984: Top-down and bottom-up diffusion of a scalar in the convective boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 102-112.
64. Zhou, S., and K.-Q. Xia, 2008: Comparative experimental study of local mixing of active and passive scalars in turbulent thermal convection. Phys. Rev., 77E, 056312, doi:10.1103/ PhysRevE.77.056312.