Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC
Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC
Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC
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3. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM UPDATES<br />
3.1 CALMET<br />
Similarity Profiles for Wind and Temper<strong>at</strong>ure<br />
Some inconsistencies are found in the Monin-Obukhov similarity profile equ<strong>at</strong>ions<br />
for wind speed and temper<strong>at</strong>ure used in OCD, CALMET, and COARE. <strong>The</strong> upd<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ions used in COARE for the extended surface layer (z/L >1) are implemented<br />
throughout CALMET.<br />
COARE adopts the profile expressions provided in Beljaars and Holtslag (1991),<br />
who retain the Paulson (1970) and Dyer(1974) stability functions Ψ for the unstable<br />
surface layer, but propose new functions for the stable surface layer. In addition,<br />
COARE merges the stability function for the unstable surface layer with a free<br />
convection rel<strong>at</strong>ion for large z/L (L is the Monin-Obukhov length) using a weighting<br />
parameter F Ψ (Grachev et al., 2000):<br />
Ψ =<br />
( − FΨ<br />
) ΨK<br />
+ FΨ<br />
ΨC<br />
1 (3-1)<br />
2<br />
( z L )<br />
+ ( z ) 2<br />
F =<br />
(3-2)<br />
Ψ<br />
1 L<br />
where subscript K denotes the “Kansas” stability function, and subscript C denotes<br />
the free convection stability function.<br />
<strong>The</strong> momentum (M) and he<strong>at</strong> flux (H) rel<strong>at</strong>ions for the unstable surface layer (L