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  • Open Access
31 Citations
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19 Pages

30 June 2016

This work continues development of the framework for dynamically consistent parameterization of mesoscale eddy effects in non-eddy-resolving ocean circulation models. Here, we refine and extend the previous results obtained for the double gyres and a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,784 Views
28 Pages

7 September 2022

Wind turbine parameterization models, which are often employed to avoid the computational cost of resolving the blade aerodynamics, are critical for the capability of large-eddy simulation in predicting wind turbine wakes. In this paper, we review th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,652 Views
14 Pages

The Parameterization of the Sound Speed Profile in the Sea of Japan and Its Perturbation Caused by a Synoptic Eddy

  • Mikhail Sorokin,
  • Aleksey Gudimenko,
  • Vladimir Luchin,
  • Andrey Tyschenko and
  • Pavel Petrov

2 December 2024

This study presents the description of the parameterization of sound speed distribution in the Sea of Japan in the presence of a synoptic eddy. An analytical representation of the background sound speed profile (SSP) on its periphery is proposed. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,989 Views
16 Pages

Suppressed Thermocline Mixing in the Center of Anticyclonic Eddy in the North South China Sea

  • Yongfeng Qi,
  • Huabin Mao,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Linhui Yu,
  • Shumin Lian,
  • Xianpeng Li and
  • Xiaodong Shang

19 October 2021

Direct microstructure observations and fine-scale measurements of an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy were conducted in the northern South China Sea in July 2020. An important finding was that suppressed turbulent mixing in the thermocline existed at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,737 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2023

Model resolution plays a large role in accurately simulating the Southern Hemisphere circulation in both the ocean and atmosphere. Resolving the mesoscale field is important as it has been shown to have a significant impact on the large-scale climate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,880 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2017

Geostrophic turbulent eddies play a crucial role in the oceans, mixing properties such as heat, salt, and geochemical tracers. A useful reduced model for geostrophic turbulence is barotropic (2D) turbulence. The focus of this study is on 2D β -p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,092 Views
20 Pages

22 August 2019

The modular structure of the boundary layer and convection parameterizations in atmospheric models have long been affecting the numerical representation of subgrid-scale motions and their mutual interactions. A promising alternative, the eddy-diffusi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
689 Views
16 Pages

28 March 2025

The Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) is widely used for surface layer parameterization. Discrepancies in MOST highlight the need to account for large eddy effects. A possible solution is to introduce the boundary layer depth zi as a new scaling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,286 Views
23 Pages

An Evaluation of Algebraic Turbulence Length Scale Formulations

  • Stephanie Reilly,
  • Ivan Bašták Ďurán,
  • Anurose Theethai Jacob and
  • Juerg Schmidli

9 April 2022

Turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) schemes are routinely used for turbulence parameterization in numerical weather prediction models. A key component of these schemes is the so-called turbulence length scale. Novel scale-aware, budget-based diagnostics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,106 Views
13 Pages

Parameterization of Wave-Induced Mixing Using the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) (I)

  • Haili Wang,
  • Changming Dong,
  • Yongzeng Yang and
  • Xiaoqian Gao

15 February 2020

Turbulent motions in the thin ocean surface boundary layer control exchanges of momentum, heat and trace gases between the atmosphere and ocean. However, present parametric equations of turbulent motions that are applied to global climate models resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,080 Views
9 Pages

10 November 2021

The drag coefficient is essential for calculating the aerodynamic friction between air and sea. In this study, we regress a set of relationships between the drag coefficient and the wind speed for different wind ranges using an observational dataset...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,802 Views
16 Pages

27 July 2022

Optimization of dry deposition velocity calculation has been of great interest. Every time, determining the value of the concentration boundary layer (CBL) thickness led to a waste of numerical calculation time, which appears as a huge time in large-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
962 Views
18 Pages

13 March 2025

Surface fluxes are vital to understanding land–atmosphere interactions, with similarity theory forming the basis for their parameterization. However, this theory has limitations, particularly due to large eddy effects, which have not been widel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,194 Views
49 Pages

Entropy, Closures and Subgrid Modeling

  • Jorgen S. Frederiksen and
  • Terence J. O’Kane

17 November 2008

Maximum entropy states or statistical mechanical equilibrium solutions have played an important role in the development of a fundamental understanding of turbulence and its role in geophysical flows. In modern general circulation models of the earth’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,218 Views
13 Pages

17 September 2022

The scale-aware convective parameterization for high resolution global climate models must satisfy the requirement that the parameterized subgrid convective transport diminishes as the model resolution increases to convection-resolving resolutions. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,352 Views
17 Pages

This study aimed to highlight a general lack of clarity regarding the scale of the temporal averaging implicit in Ekman-type models. Under the assumption of time and depth-dependent eddy viscosity, we present an analytical Fourier series solution for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,045 Views
12 Pages

10 October 2022

At multi-kilometer grid scales, numerical weather prediction models represent surface-based convective eddies as a completely sub-grid one-dimensional vertical mixing and transport process. At tens of meters grid scales, large-eddy simulation models,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,932 Views
13 Pages

9 November 2023

Enhanced turbulence triggered by near-inertial wave (NIW) trapping by a mesoscale anticyclone and typhoon “Kompasu” was observed in the northern South China Sea. The observations provide evidence for the trapping of NIW packets of amplitu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,658 Views
18 Pages

A Parameterized Modeling Method for Magnetic Circuits of Adjustable Permanent Magnet Couplers

  • Dazhi Wang,
  • Wenhui Li,
  • Jiaxing Wang,
  • Keling Song,
  • Yongliang Ni and
  • Yanming Li

27 November 2023

The contactless transmission between the conductor rotor and the permanent magnet (PM) rotor of an adjustable permanent magnet coupler (APMC) provides the device with significant tolerance for alignment errors, making the performance estimation compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,336 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2020

This paper reviews the evolution of planetary boundary layer (PBL) parameterization schemes that have been used in the operational version of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model since 2011. Idealized simulations are then used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,204 Views
28 Pages

22 October 2013

Based on surface energy balance and the assumption of fairly invariant evaporative fraction (EF) during daytime, this study proposes a new parameterization scheme of directly estimating daily EF. Daily EF is parameterized as a function of temporal va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,269 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2023

Surface turbulent heat fluxes are crucial for monitoring drought, heat waves, urban heat islands, agricultural water management, and other hydrological applications. Energy Balance Models (EBMs) are widely used to simulate surface heat fluxes from a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,727 Views
11 Pages

Employing Spectral Analysis to Obtain Dispersion Parameters in an Atmospheric Environment Driven by a Mesoscale Downslope Windstorm

  • Cinara Ewerling da Rosa,
  • Michel Stefanello,
  • Silvana Maldaner,
  • Douglas Stefanello Facco,
  • Débora Regina Roberti,
  • Tiziano Tirabassi and
  • Gervásio Annes Degrazia

Considering the influence of the downslope windstorm called “Vento Norte” (VNOR; Portuguese for “North Wind”) in planetary boundary layer turbulent features, a new set of turbulent parameterizations, which are to be used in at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,740 Views
17 Pages

Wave and Meso-Scale Eddy Climate in the Arctic Ocean

  • Guojing Xing,
  • Wei Shen,
  • Meng Wei,
  • Huan Li and
  • Weizeng Shao

Under global climate change, the characteristics of oceanic dynamics are gradually beginning to change due to melting sea ice. This study focused on inter-annual variation in waves and mesoscale eddies (radius > 40 km) in the Arctic Ocean from 199...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,783 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2020

Recent computational and modeling advances have led a diverse modeling community to experiment with atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) simulations at subkilometer horizontal scales. Accurately parameterizing turbulence at these scales is a complex prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,021 Views
18 Pages

Loss Research and Thermal Analysis of BLDC Hollow-Cup Motor Under Reactor Suppression

  • Jingjuan Du,
  • Yumeng Sun,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Boran Liu and
  • Yanqing Mi

2 February 2025

In order to avoid overheating of a BLDC permanent magnet (PM) motor at high speeds, this paper focuses on the loss reduction of a 90 W 47,000 r/min BLDC hollow-cup motor. It is proposed to provide an optimizing method for the series reactors and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,156 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2020

Extending instantaneous latent heat flux to daily, monthly, or even yearly evapotranspiration (ET) is a fundamental issue in using remote sensing to estimate ET at local and regional scales. In this study, the extending parameterizations of the surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,165 Views
31 Pages

Modeling Carbon and Water Fluxes of Managed Grasslands: Comparing Flux Variability and Net Carbon Budgets between Grazed and Mowed Systems

  • Nicolas Puche,
  • Nimai Senapati,
  • Christophe R. Flechard,
  • Katia Klumpp,
  • Miko U.F. Kirschbaum and
  • Abad Chabbi

10 April 2019

The CenW ecosystem model simulates carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles following ecophysiological processes and management practices on a daily basis. We tested and evaluated the model using five years eddy covariance measurements from two adjacent bu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,045 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2023

RANS simulations have been broadly used to investigate turbulence in the oceans and atmosphere. Within these environments there are a multitude of tracers undergoing reactions (e.g., phytoplankton growth, chemical reactions). The distribution of thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
17 Pages

Unsupervised Cluster Analysis of Eddy Covariance Flux Footprints from SMEAR Estonia and Integration with Forest Growth Data

  • Anuj Thapa Magar,
  • Dmitrii Krasnov,
  • Allar Padari,
  • Emílio Graciliano Ferreira Mercuri and
  • Steffen M. Noe

27 November 2025

Eddy covariance measurements are increasingly utilized for assessing the exchange of matter and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere across various time scales, ranging from hours to years. The flux footprint represents the area observable by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Citations
23,895 Views
38 Pages

Estimation of Terrestrial Global Gross Primary Production (GPP) with Satellite Data-Driven Models and Eddy Covariance Flux Data

  • Joanna Joiner,
  • Yasuko Yoshida,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Gregory Duveiller,
  • Martin Jung,
  • Alexei Lyapustin,
  • Yujie Wang and
  • Compton J. Tucker

23 August 2018

We estimate global terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) based on models that use satellite data within a simplified light-use efficiency framework that does not rely upon other meteorological inputs. Satellite-based geometry-adjusted reflectanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,193 Views
14 Pages

Observation and Numerical Simulation of a Windshear Case at an Airport in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

  • Pak Wai Chan,
  • Kai Kwong Lai,
  • Jiafeng Zheng,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Haoming Chen and
  • Xiaoming Shi

26 November 2024

This paper documents a windshear case for an airport in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and explores, for the first time, the capability for high-resolution numerical weather simulation of the wind shear features. The windshear appears to be associated wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,932 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2017

Estimation of evapotranspiration plays an important role in understanding the water cycle on the earth, especially the water budget in agricultural ecosystems. The parameterization approach of the Penman-Monteith-Katerji-Perrier (PM-KP) model, accoun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
16 Pages

Predicting Sediment Suspension by Asymmetric Waves with a Modified Model of Bottom Shear Stress

  • Yiqin Xie,
  • Jifu Zhou,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Jinlong Duan,
  • Yongjun Lu and
  • Shouqian Li

12 November 2025

A sediment suspension model is established to predict the sediment movement beneath asymmetric waves, in which the bottom boundary condition for the sediment concentration equation is specified by means of pickup function parameterized by a modified...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,637 Views
20 Pages

A Budget-Based Turbulence Length Scale Diagnostic

  • Ivan Bašták Ďurán,
  • Juerg Schmidli and
  • Ritthik Bhattacharya

22 April 2020

The most frequently used boundary-layer turbulence parameterization in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) based-based schemes. However, these parameterizations suffer from a potential weakness, namely the st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,766 Views
30 Pages

Mediterranean eddies (meddies) play an essential role in transferring heat, salinity and momentum into the Atlantic Ocean. The rate of heat (and salt) flux from the meddy and its ultimate lifetime are key proxies to understanding how meddies impact t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,983 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2019

The accurate simulation of lake-air exchanges can improve weather and climate predictions, quantify the lake water cycle and provide evidence for water demand management and decision making. This paper analyzes the thermal stratification and surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,164 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Potential of Satellite Solar-Induced Fluorescence to Constrain Global Transpiration Estimates

  • Brianna R. Pagán,
  • Wouter H. Maes,
  • Pierre Gentine,
  • Brecht Martens and
  • Diego G. Miralles

18 February 2019

The opening and closing of plant stomata regulates the global water, carbon and energy cycles. Biophysical feedbacks on climate are highly dependent on transpiration, which is mediated by vegetation phenology and plant responses to stress conditions....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,689 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of the Sensitivity of the Mean Climate Simulation over West Africa to Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Using RegCM5 Regional Climate Model

  • Foungnigué Silué,
  • Adama Diawara,
  • Brahima Koné,
  • Arona Diedhiou,
  • Adjon Anderson Kouassi,
  • Benjamin Komenan Kouassi,
  • Fidèle Yoroba,
  • Adama Bamba,
  • Kouakou Kouadio and
  • Adjoua Moise Landry Famien
  • + 3 authors

7 March 2024

This study evaluates the performance of two planetary boundary parameterizations in simulating the mean climate of West Africa using the Regional Climate Model version 5 (RegCM5). These planetary boundary parameterizations are the Holtslag scheme and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,416 Views
21 Pages

Turbulence related to flow oscillations near the seabed, in the wave bottom boundary layer (WBBL), is the phenomenon responsible for the suspension and transport of sediments. The vertical distribution of turbulent eddy viscosity within the WBBL is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,323 Views
13 Pages

25 September 2019

Current understanding of the buoyant rise and subsequent dispersion of smoke due to wildfires has been limited by the complexity of interactions between fire behavior and atmospheric conditions, as well as the uncertainty in model evaluation data. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,949 Views
21 Pages

Large Eddy Simulation of Microphysics and Influencing Factors in Shallow Convective Clouds

  • Zhuangzhuang Zhou,
  • Chongzhi Yin,
  • Chunsong Lu,
  • Xingcan Jia,
  • Fang Ye,
  • Yujun Qiu and
  • Muning Cheng

12 April 2021

A flight of shallow convective clouds during the SCMS95 (Small Cumulus Microphysics Study 1995) observation project is simulated by the large eddy simulation (LES) version of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF-LES) with spectral bin micr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,348 Views
25 Pages

Improving the Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance Evapotranspiration Model Using the Forcing and Normalizing Operation

  • Gabriel B. Senay,
  • Gabriel E. L. Parrish,
  • Matthew Schauer,
  • MacKenzie Friedrichs,
  • Kul Khand,
  • Olena Boiko,
  • Stefanie Kagone,
  • Ray Dittmeier,
  • Saeed Arab and
  • Lei Ji

1 January 2023

Actual evapotranspiration modeling is providing useful information for researchers and resource managers in agriculture and water resources around the world. The performance of models depends on the accuracy of forcing inputs and model parameters. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
153 Citations
13,207 Views
18 Pages

Validation of Global Evapotranspiration Product (MOD16) using Flux Tower Data in the African Savanna, South Africa

  • Abel Ramoelo,
  • Nobuhle Majozi,
  • Renaud Mathieu,
  • Nebo Jovanovic,
  • Alecia Nickless and
  • Sebinasi Dzikiti

11 August 2014

Globally, water is an important resource required for the survival of human beings. Water is a scarce resource in the semi-arid environments, including South Africa. In South Africa, several studies have quantified evapotranspiration (ET) in differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,268 Views
12 Pages

24 April 2024

As constituents of one of the vital agricultural ecosystems, paddy fields exert significant influence on the global carbon cycle. Therefore, conducting observations and simulations of CO2 flux in rice paddy is of significant importance for gaining de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,832 Views
16 Pages

26 May 2020

In this paper, we address the retrieval of spatially distributed latent heat flux ( λ E) over a tropical dry forest using multi-spectral and thermal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. The study was carried out in the Santa Rosa Nationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,032 Views
28 Pages

14 April 2014

How well parameterization will improve gross primary production (GPP) estimation using the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) algorithm has been rarely investigated. We adjusted the parameters in the algorithm for 21 selected eddy-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,207 Views
26 Pages

Stable Boundary Layers and Subfilter-Scale Motions

  • James C. McWilliams,
  • Charles Meneveau,
  • Edward G. Patton and
  • Peter P. Sullivan

4 July 2023

Recent high-resolution large-eddy simulations (LES) of a stable atmospheric boundary layer (SBL) with mesh sizes N=(5123,10243,20483) or mesh spacings =(0.78,0.39,0.2) m are analyzed. The LES solutions are judged to be converged based on the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,186 Views
17 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Wake Interactions of Marine Hydrokinetic Turbines

  • Clemente Gotelli,
  • Mirko Musa,
  • Michele Guala and
  • Cristián Escauriaza

20 August 2019

To study the performance and environmental impacts of marine hydrokinetic (MHK) turbine arrays, we carry out an investigation based on laboratory experiments and numerical models able to resolve the dynamics of turbulent wake interactions and their e...

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