Author: Judith Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Mesoscale Variability in the Marine Boundary Layer at Mid-latitudes
Author: Judith Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes
Author: Paul Markowski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119966671
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Mesoscale Meteorology in Mid-Latitudes presents the dynamics of mesoscale meteorological phenomena in a highly accessible, student-friendly manner. The book's clear mathematical treatments are complemented by high-quality photographs and illustrations. Comprehensive coverage of subjects including boundary layer mesoscale phenomena, orographic phenomena and deep convection is brought together with the latest developments in the field to provide an invaluable resource for mesoscale meteorology students. Mesoscale Meteorology in Mid-Latitudes functions as a comprehensive, easy-to-use undergraduate textbook while also providing a useful reference for graduate students, research scientists and weather industry professionals. Illustrated in full colour throughout Covers the latest developments and research in the field Comprehensive coverage of deep convection and its initiation Uses real life examples of phenomena taken from broad geographical areas to demonstrate the practical aspects of the science
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119966671
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Mesoscale Meteorology in Mid-Latitudes presents the dynamics of mesoscale meteorological phenomena in a highly accessible, student-friendly manner. The book's clear mathematical treatments are complemented by high-quality photographs and illustrations. Comprehensive coverage of subjects including boundary layer mesoscale phenomena, orographic phenomena and deep convection is brought together with the latest developments in the field to provide an invaluable resource for mesoscale meteorology students. Mesoscale Meteorology in Mid-Latitudes functions as a comprehensive, easy-to-use undergraduate textbook while also providing a useful reference for graduate students, research scientists and weather industry professionals. Illustrated in full colour throughout Covers the latest developments and research in the field Comprehensive coverage of deep convection and its initiation Uses real life examples of phenomena taken from broad geographical areas to demonstrate the practical aspects of the science
Atmospheric and Oceanic Mesoscale Processes
Author: Maithili Sharan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 376438493X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This volume contains many original findings on mesoscale processes in atmospheric and oceanic systems through mathematical modeling, numerical simulations and field experiments. These scientific papers examine and provide the latest developments on a range of topics that include tropical cyclones/hurricanes, mesoscale variability and modeling, seasonal monsoons and land surface processes including atmospheric boundary layer.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 376438493X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This volume contains many original findings on mesoscale processes in atmospheric and oceanic systems through mathematical modeling, numerical simulations and field experiments. These scientific papers examine and provide the latest developments on a range of topics that include tropical cyclones/hurricanes, mesoscale variability and modeling, seasonal monsoons and land surface processes including atmospheric boundary layer.
Boundary Layer Studies and Applications
Author: R.E. Munn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400909756
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400909756
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Mesoscale Adjustments Within the Planetary Boundary Layer in Tropical and Extratropical Environments
Author: Matthew G. Fearon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A series of three papers comprised the research completed for this dissertation study. Each contribution examined mesoscale processes that occurred within the planetary boundary layer in the context of the chosen avenue of research. The premise of paper one centered on the daytime growth of the convective mixed layer over the continental mid-latitudes for the application of smoke management from wildland fire. An evaluation of the most robust practical technique for mixed-layer height estimation was performed using numerical model simulations and space-based lidar retrievals. Results revealed that daytime mixed-layer growth corresponded with the excitation of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and layer height was best determined where the dissipation of TKE occurred in the vertical. Papers two and three were completed as a two-part series where emphasis was placed on the boundary layer dynamics associated with the precursor environment wherein Hurricane Sandy (October 2012) developed. And although greater attention was paid to the localized mesoscale dynamics, evaluation of the larger-scale influence was also examined across the entire northern hemisphere weeks in advance. Results from two mesoscale model simulations, a control run and no-terrain experiment, show that the precursor environment is highly influential to its developmental fate. In the case of Sandy, the surrounding orography imposed constraints on the environmental mass field such that a low-level curved momentum channel was produced upstream of the incipient disturbance (on its southwestern side) wherein vorticity generation was maximized and wrapped into the vortex inflow region. The latter westerly momentum also converged with a secondary low-level southerly jet feature that emanated into the vortex inflow region. Model results were evaluated against a suite of satellite data including composite brightness imagery, scatterometer surface wind data, space-based lidar retrievals, and Best Track data (on storm track, mean sea level pressure, and maximum tangential wind speed) from the National Hurricane Center database.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A series of three papers comprised the research completed for this dissertation study. Each contribution examined mesoscale processes that occurred within the planetary boundary layer in the context of the chosen avenue of research. The premise of paper one centered on the daytime growth of the convective mixed layer over the continental mid-latitudes for the application of smoke management from wildland fire. An evaluation of the most robust practical technique for mixed-layer height estimation was performed using numerical model simulations and space-based lidar retrievals. Results revealed that daytime mixed-layer growth corresponded with the excitation of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and layer height was best determined where the dissipation of TKE occurred in the vertical. Papers two and three were completed as a two-part series where emphasis was placed on the boundary layer dynamics associated with the precursor environment wherein Hurricane Sandy (October 2012) developed. And although greater attention was paid to the localized mesoscale dynamics, evaluation of the larger-scale influence was also examined across the entire northern hemisphere weeks in advance. Results from two mesoscale model simulations, a control run and no-terrain experiment, show that the precursor environment is highly influential to its developmental fate. In the case of Sandy, the surrounding orography imposed constraints on the environmental mass field such that a low-level curved momentum channel was produced upstream of the incipient disturbance (on its southwestern side) wherein vorticity generation was maximized and wrapped into the vortex inflow region. The latter westerly momentum also converged with a secondary low-level southerly jet feature that emanated into the vortex inflow region. Model results were evaluated against a suite of satellite data including composite brightness imagery, scatterometer surface wind data, space-based lidar retrievals, and Best Track data (on storm track, mean sea level pressure, and maximum tangential wind speed) from the National Hurricane Center database.
Mesoscale Atmospheric Simulations of Marine-Layer Structure and Refractivity in the Southern California Bight
Author: Robert T Williams (Jr)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423570752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Calculation of electromagnetic (EM) propagation in the littoral (marine coastal zone) can be a challenging problem for current numerical propagation models because of the sparsity of meteorological data necessary to describe the propagation medium. It is believed, however, that with sufficient improvement such models can simulate characteristics of the marine boundary layer depth, inversion height, and inversion strength, on temporal scales from an hour to several days. It may also be possible to estimate the subgrid scale statistics of the critical fields. The Penn State/National Center for Atmospheric Research non-hydrostatic mesoscale model (MM5) is used to test the predictability of marine temperature and moisture structures in the coastal zone of Southern California during the VOCAR (Variability of Coastal Atmospheric Refractivity) experiment of 1993. Hundreds of soundings taken at several sites in the VOCAR study area are analyzed to characterize the dependence of atmospheric refractivity and marine layer structure on time of day and distance offshore. High vertical resolution numerical simulations are performed using MMS and are evaluated against the special data over a period of about one week. The ability of a mesoscale numerical model to predict both short term (1-6 hours) and longer range (days) variations in marine layer structure and refractivity is demonstrated. The major conclusions are that the numerical model is capable of predicting (1) the basic evolution of marine boundary layer depth over a period of 7 days, (2) inversion structures in temperature and water vapor that account for the observed strength of trapping and ducting layers in the refractivity (M) profiles, and (3) gravity wave propagation in and above the marine boundary layer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423570752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Calculation of electromagnetic (EM) propagation in the littoral (marine coastal zone) can be a challenging problem for current numerical propagation models because of the sparsity of meteorological data necessary to describe the propagation medium. It is believed, however, that with sufficient improvement such models can simulate characteristics of the marine boundary layer depth, inversion height, and inversion strength, on temporal scales from an hour to several days. It may also be possible to estimate the subgrid scale statistics of the critical fields. The Penn State/National Center for Atmospheric Research non-hydrostatic mesoscale model (MM5) is used to test the predictability of marine temperature and moisture structures in the coastal zone of Southern California during the VOCAR (Variability of Coastal Atmospheric Refractivity) experiment of 1993. Hundreds of soundings taken at several sites in the VOCAR study area are analyzed to characterize the dependence of atmospheric refractivity and marine layer structure on time of day and distance offshore. High vertical resolution numerical simulations are performed using MMS and are evaluated against the special data over a period of about one week. The ability of a mesoscale numerical model to predict both short term (1-6 hours) and longer range (days) variations in marine layer structure and refractivity is demonstrated. The major conclusions are that the numerical model is capable of predicting (1) the basic evolution of marine boundary layer depth over a period of 7 days, (2) inversion structures in temperature and water vapor that account for the observed strength of trapping and ducting layers in the refractivity (M) profiles, and (3) gravity wave propagation in and above the marine boundary layer
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
MTPE/EOS Reference Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Earth's Climate
Author: Chunzai Wang
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 147. It is more than 30 years since the publication of Jacob Bjerknes' groundbreaking ideas made clear the importance of ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics. It is now more than 20 years since the arrival of a massive El Niño in the fall of 1982 set off a cascade of observational and theoretical studies. During the following decades, the climate research community has made exceptional progress in refining our capacity to observe earth's climate and theorize about it, including new satellite-based and in situ monitoring systems and coupled ocean-atmosphere predictive numerical models. Of equal importance. is the expanding scope ofresearch, which now reaches far beyond the Pacific El Niño and includes climate phenomena in other ocean basins. In order to cover the now global context of ocean-atmosphere interaction we have organized this monograph around five principal themes, each introduced by one or more broad overview papers. Theme I covers interaction and climate variability in the Pacific sector, with extensive discussion of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and with the possible causes and consequences of variability on both shorter and longer timescales. Theme II is devoted to interaction in the Atlantic sector. This basin exhibits complex behavior, reflecting its geographic location between two major zones of convection as well as neighboring the tropical Pacific. Theme III reviews the recent, exciting progress in our understanding of climate variability in the Indian sector. Theme IV addresses the interaction between the tropics and the extratropics, which are linked through the presence of shallow meridional overturning cells in the ocean. Finally, Theme V discusses overarching issues of cross-basin interaction.
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 147. It is more than 30 years since the publication of Jacob Bjerknes' groundbreaking ideas made clear the importance of ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics. It is now more than 20 years since the arrival of a massive El Niño in the fall of 1982 set off a cascade of observational and theoretical studies. During the following decades, the climate research community has made exceptional progress in refining our capacity to observe earth's climate and theorize about it, including new satellite-based and in situ monitoring systems and coupled ocean-atmosphere predictive numerical models. Of equal importance. is the expanding scope ofresearch, which now reaches far beyond the Pacific El Niño and includes climate phenomena in other ocean basins. In order to cover the now global context of ocean-atmosphere interaction we have organized this monograph around five principal themes, each introduced by one or more broad overview papers. Theme I covers interaction and climate variability in the Pacific sector, with extensive discussion of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and with the possible causes and consequences of variability on both shorter and longer timescales. Theme II is devoted to interaction in the Atlantic sector. This basin exhibits complex behavior, reflecting its geographic location between two major zones of convection as well as neighboring the tropical Pacific. Theme III reviews the recent, exciting progress in our understanding of climate variability in the Indian sector. Theme IV addresses the interaction between the tropics and the extratropics, which are linked through the presence of shallow meridional overturning cells in the ocean. Finally, Theme V discusses overarching issues of cross-basin interaction.
Ocean Circulation and Climate
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0123918537
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
The book represents all the knowledge we currently have on ocean circulation. It presents an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system. The book is structured to guide the reader through the wide range of world ocean circulation experiment (WOCE) science in a consistent way. Cross-references between contributors have been added, and the book has a comprehensive index and unified reference list. The book is simple to read, at the undergraduate level. It was written by the best scientists in the world who have collaborated to carry out years of experiments to better understand ocean circulation. Presents in situ and remote observations with worldwide coverage Provides theoretical understanding of processes within the ocean and at its boundaries to other Earth System components Allows for simulating ocean and climate processes in the past, present and future using a hierarchy of physical-biogeochemical models
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0123918537
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
The book represents all the knowledge we currently have on ocean circulation. It presents an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system. The book is structured to guide the reader through the wide range of world ocean circulation experiment (WOCE) science in a consistent way. Cross-references between contributors have been added, and the book has a comprehensive index and unified reference list. The book is simple to read, at the undergraduate level. It was written by the best scientists in the world who have collaborated to carry out years of experiments to better understand ocean circulation. Presents in situ and remote observations with worldwide coverage Provides theoretical understanding of processes within the ocean and at its boundaries to other Earth System components Allows for simulating ocean and climate processes in the past, present and future using a hierarchy of physical-biogeochemical models