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Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications

The composition and prevalence of microorganisms in the middle-to-upper troposphere (8-15 km altitude) and their role in aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions represent important, unresolved questions for biological and atmospheric science. In particula ...

2013

A modulated gradient model for scalar transport in large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer

Fernando Porté Agel, Hao Lu

As a simple alternative to the standard eddy-diffusivity closure, a nonlinear subgrid-scale (SGS) flux model is introduced and implemented in simulations of a neutral atmospheric boundary layer and a stable atmospheric boundary layer. The new model compute ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Fluid-structure thermal coupling and ablation effects in atmospheric entry

Ojas Joshi

This thesis deals with the modelling of fundamental aspects of the mission engineering, the physics, and the constraints of atmospheric entry of space vehicles. The aim of this work is to formulate a coupled approach for the modelling and the simulation of ...

EPFL2013

Relative importance of advective heat transport and boundary layer decoupling in the melt dynamics of a patchy snow cover

Michael Lehning

For a patchy snow cover the advective heat transport and the near-surface boundary layer decoupling, which have an opposite effect on sensible heat transport onto the snow surface, are both expected to increase in magnitude. The main aim of this study is t ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

The Effect of Free-Atmosphere Stratification on Boundary-Layer Flow and Power Output from Very Large Wind Farms

Fernando Porté Agel, Mahdi Abkar

Large-eddy simulation is used to study the influence of free-atmosphere stratification on the structure of atmospheric boundary-layer flow inside and above very large wind farms, as well as the power extracted by the wind turbines. In the simulations, tuni ...

Mdpi Ag2013

Coherent Structures and the k−1 spectral behavior

Valentin Simeonov, Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

Here we present unique evidence of a k −1 scaling behaviour in the atmospheric boundary layer and its connection to large scale coherent structures within the boundary layer. Wind lidar measurements were conducted above a lake under cold atmospheric condit ...

2013

Coherent structures and the k(-1) spectral behaviour

Valentin Simeonov, Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

l Here we present unique evidence of a k(-1) scaling behaviour in the atmospheric boundary layer and its connection to large scale coherent structures within the boundary layer. Wind lidar measurements were conducted above a lake under cold atmospheric con ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Measured and Estimated Water Vapor Advection in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

Valentin Simeonov, Martin Froidevaux, Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Eric Richard Pardyjak

The flux of water vapor due to advection is measured using high-resolution Raman lidar that was orientated horizontally across a land-lake transition. At the same time, a full surface energy balance is performed to assess the impact of scalar advection on ...

American Meteorological Society2013

Modelling Drifting Snow Sublimation and Investigating Small-Scale Snow Transport

Christine Dorothea Groot Zwaaftink

Drifting snow has a large influence on the mountain snow cover and the overlying atmospheric boundary layer. Consequently, drifting snow also affects avalanches, snow hydrology, vegetation and climate. Considerable effort is devoted to understanding the pr ...

EPFL2013

Observations, theory, and modeling of the differential accumulation of Antarctic megadunes

Michael Lehning

Antarctic megadunes are characterized by significant spatial differences in accumulation rate, with higher accumulation on the windward side and near-zero accumulation on the lee side. This leads to spatial differences in physical properties of snow and su ...

Amer Geophysical Union2013

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