Wind tunnel experiments: cold-air pooling and atmospheric decoupling above a melting snow patch
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Recent advances in boundary-layer meteorology are beginning to allow the study of atmospheric flow phenomena that have previously been poorly understood. In this dissertation, we study the effects of complex terrain and unsteady regimes on the atmospheric ...
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In this study, the small-scale boundary layer dynamics and the energy balance over a fractional snow cover are numerically investigated. The atmospheric boundary layer flows over a patchy snow cover were calculated with an atmospheric model (Advanced Regio ...
In the present study, the influence of thermally-stratified free atmosphere on the power extracted by a very large wind farm is investigated. A suit of large-eddy simulations of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow inside and above an infinite wind farm i ...
Parametrization of momentum surface roughness length in mountainous regions continues to be an active research topic given its application to improved weather forecasting and sub-grid scale representation of mountainous regions in climate models. A field c ...
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 ...
Heterogeneous land-covers induce the formation of secondary flows and small-scale boundary layer processes. While turbulent fluxes over a continuous snow cover are mostly governed by the spatial variability of wind velocity and solar radiation, local advec ...
The wind-driven redistribution of snow has a significant impact on the climate and mass balance of polar and mountainous regions. Locally, it shapes the snow surface, producing dunes and sastrugi. Sediment transport has been mainly represented as a functio ...
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 ...