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DOI | 10.1175/JAS-D-19-0135.1 |
Estimating the Shallow Convective Mass Flux from the Subcloud-Layer Mass Budget | |
Vogel, Raphaela1; Bony, Sandrine1; Stevens, Bjorn2 | |
2020-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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ISSN | 0022-4928 |
EISSN | 1520-0469 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 77期号:5页码:1559-1574 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | France; Germany |
英文摘要 | This paper develops a method to estimate the shallow-convective mass flux M at the top of the subcloud layer as a residual of the subcloud-layer mass budget. The ability of the mass-budget estimate to reproduce the mass flux diagnosed directly from the cloud-core area fraction and vertical velocity is tested using real-case large-eddy simulations over the tropical Atlantic. We find that M reproduces well the magnitude, diurnal cycle, and day-to-day variability of the core-sampled mass flux, with an average root-mean-square error of less than 30% of the mean. The average M across the four winter days analyzed is 12 mm s(-1), where the entrainment rate E contributes on average 14 mm s(-1) and the large-scale vertical velocity W contributes -2 mm s(-1). We find that day-to-day variations in M are mostly explained by variations in W, whereas E is very similar among the different days analyzed. Instead E exhibits a pronounced diurnal cycle, with a minimum of about 10 mm s(-1) around sunset and a maximum of about 18 mm s(-1) around sunrise. Application of the method to dropsonde data from an airborne field campaign in August 2016 yields the first measurements of the mass flux derived from the mass budget, and supports the result that the variability in M is mostly due to the variability in W. Our analyses thus suggest a strong coupling between the day-to-day variability in shallow convective mixing (as measured by M) and the large-scale circulation (as measured by W). Application of the method to the EUREC(4)A field campaign will help evaluate this coupling, and assess its implications for cloud-base cloudiness. |
英文关键词 | Cumulus clouds Marine boundary layer Mixed layer Mass fluxes transport Dropsondes Large eddy simulations |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000535703800003 |
WOS关键词 | BOUNDARY-LAYER ; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY ; CUMULUS ; ENTRAINMENT ; MODEL ; CLOUDS ; PARAMETERIZATION ; REPRESENTATION ; PRECIPITATION ; SIMULATIONS |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/280332 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, LMD IPSL, Paris, France; 2.Max Planck Inst Meteorol, Hamburg, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vogel, Raphaela,Bony, Sandrine,Stevens, Bjorn. Estimating the Shallow Convective Mass Flux from the Subcloud-Layer Mass Budget[J]. JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,2020,77(5):1559-1574. |
APA | Vogel, Raphaela,Bony, Sandrine,&Stevens, Bjorn.(2020).Estimating the Shallow Convective Mass Flux from the Subcloud-Layer Mass Budget.JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,77(5),1559-1574. |
MLA | Vogel, Raphaela,et al."Estimating the Shallow Convective Mass Flux from the Subcloud-Layer Mass Budget".JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 77.5(2020):1559-1574. |
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