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contributor authorLappen, Cara-Lyn
contributor authorRandall, David A.
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:37:01Z
date available2017-06-09T14:37:01Z
date copyright2001/08/01
date issued2001
identifier issn0022-4928
identifier otherams-22889.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4159388
description abstractHigher-order closure (HOC) models have been proposed for parameterization of the turbulent planetary boundary layer (PBL). HOC models must include closures for higher-order moments (e.g., fourth moments in third-order closure models), for pressure terms, and for dissipation terms. Mass-flux closure (MFC) models have been proposed for parameterization of cumulus convection and, more recently, the convective PBL. MFC models include closures for lateral mass exchanges and for pressure terms (which are usually ignored). The authors developed a new kind of model that combines HOC and MFC, which they hope will be useful for the parameterization of both the PBL and cumulus convection, in a unified framework. Such a model is particularly well suited to regimes in which the PBL turbulence and the cumulus convection are not well separated, for example, the broken stratocumulus and shallow cumulus regimes. The model makes use of an assumed joint probability distribution for the variables of interest, and the equations typically used in HOC models can be derived by integrating over the distribution. Accordingly, the model is called Assumed-Distribution Higher-Order Closure (ADHOC). The prognostic variables of ADHOC are the mean state, the second and third moments of the vertical velocity, and the vertical fluxes of other quantities of interest. All of the parameters of the distribution can be determined from the predicted moments; thereafter the joint distribution is effectively known, and so any and all moments can be constructed as needed. In this way, the usual closure problem of ?higher moments? is avoided. The pressure-term parameterizations previously developed for HOC models are used to predict the convective fluxes and the moments of the vertical velocity. In companion papers, parameterizations of lateral mass exchanges and subplume-scale fluxes are presented, and then ADHOC is applied to several observationally based tropical, subtropical, and dry convective boundary layers.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleToward a Unified Parameterization of the Boundary Layer and Moist Convection. Part I: A New Type of Mass-Flux Model
typeJournal Paper
journal volume58
journal issue15
journal titleJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<2021:TAUPOT>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage2021
journal lastpage2036
treeJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2001:;Volume( 058 ):;issue: 015
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