Improved Atmospheric Stable Boundary Layer Formulations for Navy Seasonal Forecasting

Abstract

Most weather forecast models prescribes too much turbulent mixing in stably stratified conditions, which causes problems with the depth of nocturnal or high-latitude winter boundary layers, lack of inertially driven low-level wind maxima and inversion-capped low clouds. The link between the turbulent momentum flux and the associated Ekman pumping and therefore the lifetime of synoptic-scale weather system has so far made impossible a satisfactory solution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA597702

Entities

People

  • Michael Tjernstroem

Organizations

  • Stockholm University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Delphi Method
  • Energy
  • Gravity Waves
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • High Latitudes
  • Latent Heat
  • Layers
  • Soil Models
  • Surface Temperature
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Wind
  • Wind Shear

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers