Effects of Resolution on the Simulation of Boundary-layer Clouds and the Partition of Kinetic Energy to Subgrid Scales

Effects of Resolution on the Simulation of Boundary-layer Clouds and the Partition of Kinetic Energy to Subgrid Scales

Seven boundary-layer cloud cases are simulated with UCLA-LES (The University of California, Los Angeles – large eddy simulation) model with different horizontal and vertical gridspacing to investigate how the results depend on gridspacing. Some variables are more sensitive to horizontal gridspacing,...

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Main Authors: Anning Cheng, Kuan-Man Xu, Bjorn Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2010-02-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Subjects:
Simulation of boundary-layer clouds
resolution dependence
turbulence kinetic energy
Online Access:http://james.agu.org/index.php/JAMES/article/view/v2n3

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