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2017

Counter-Gradient, Co-Gradient and ‘Surface-Layer' Momentum Fluxes in Nocturnal Slope Flows over Steep Alpine Terrain

Marc Parlange, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Eric Richard Pardyjak

Generally, the more an underlying terrain deviates from being flat, uniform and homogeneous, the less that classical theories and models of the atmospheric boundary layer hold. At times this leads to high uncertainties in turbulent flux predictions, and at ...

2016

Inferring global wind energetics from a simple Earth system model based on the principle of maximum entropy production

Sami Driss Karkar

The question of total available wind power in the atmosphere is highly debated, as well as the effect large scale wind farms would have on the climate. Bottom-up approaches, such as those proposed by wind turbine engineers often lead to non-physical result ...

2015

Three-Dimensional Simulation of Lake Ontario North-Shore Hydrodynamics and Contaminant Transport

Damien Bouffard

The hydrodynamics and contaminant transport in the nearshore region of Lake Ontario, from Port Hope to Cobourg, were simulated. The model results were comprehensively validated against observations of water level, temperature, and currents collected during ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2014

Analysis of surface drag over Antarctic sea ice from High-Resolution measurements from Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Large Eddy Simulations

Michael Lehning, Marc Parlange, Katherine Colby Leonard, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau, Ernesto Trujillo Gomez, Marco Giovanni Giometto

Sea ice/snow surface interactions with the atmosphere are major drivers of large-scale patterns of sea ice flows and deformations in Polar Regions. Climate and weather prediction models require parameterizations of the subgrid-scale surface drag caused by ...

2014

Spatially-resolved mean flow and turbulence help explain observed erosion and deposition patterns of snow over Antarctic sea ice

Michael Lehning, Marc Parlange, Katherine Colby Leonard, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau, Ernesto Trujillo Gomez, Marco Giovanni Giometto

Sea ice-atmosphere interactions are major drivers of patterns of sea ice flows and deformations in Polar regions, and affect snow erosion and deposition at the surface. Here, we combine analyses of sea ice surface topography at very high-resolutions (~1-10 ...

2014

P-NEXFS analysis of aerosol phosphorus delivered to the Mediterranean Sea

Athanasios Nenes, Kalliopi Violaki

Biological productivity in many ocean regions is controlled by the availability of the nutrient phosphorus. In the Mediterranean Sea, aerosol deposition is a key source of phosphorus and understanding its composition is critical for determining its potenti ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd2014

Trends and shifts in streamflow in Hawai'i, 1913-2008

Maoya Bassiouni

This study addresses a need to document changes in streamflow and base flow (groundwater discharge to streams) in Hawaii during the past century. Statistically significant long-term (19132008) downward trends were detected (using the nonparametric MannKend ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Kelvin waves in Lake Geneva

Ulrich Lemmin, Damien Bouffard

The passage of Kelvin waves in Lake Geneva after strong wind events was experimentally investigated in 1987 and 2002 using thermistor chains, current meters and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) probing the whole water column, including the bottom ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Event-driven deposition of snow on the Antarctic Plateau: analyzing field measurements with SNOWPACK

Michael Lehning, Charles Fierz

Antarctic surface snow has been studied by means of continuous measurements and observations over a period of 3 yr at Dome C. Snow observations include solid deposits in form of precipitation, diamond dust, or hoar, snow temperatures at several depths, rec ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2013

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