scholarly journals Large Temperature Fluctuations due to Cold-Air Pool Displacement along the Lee Slope of a Desert Mountain

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1083-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Jeglum ◽  
Sebastian W. Hoch ◽  
Derek D. Jensen ◽  
Reneta Dimitrova ◽  
Zachariah Silver
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Temperature Fluctuations ◽  
Atmospheric Modeling ◽  
Large Temperature ◽  
Complex Flow ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Cold Air ◽  
Flow Interactions ◽  
Initial Drop ◽  
Program Temperature

AbstractLarge temperature fluctuations (LTFs), defined as a drop of the near-surface temperature of at least 3°C in less than 30 min followed by a recovery of at least half of the initial drop, were frequently observed during the Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) program. Temperature time series at over 100 surface stations were examined in an automated fashion to identify and characterize LTFs. LTFs occur almost exclusively at night and at locations elevated 50–100 m above the basin floors, such as the east slope of the isolated Granite Mountain (GM). Temperature drops associated with LTFs were as large as 13°C and were typically greatest at heights of 4–10 m AGL. Observations and numerical simulations suggest that LTFs are the result of complex flow interactions of stably stratified flow with a mountain barrier and a leeside cold-air pool (CAP). An orographic wake forms over GM when stably stratified southwesterly nocturnal flow impinges on GM and is blocked at low levels. Warm crest-level air descends in the lee of the barrier, and the generation of baroclinic vorticity leads to periodic development of a vertically oriented vortex. Changes in the strength or location of the wake and vortex cause a displacement of the horizontal temperature gradient along the slope associated with the CAP edge, resulting in LTFs. This mechanism explains the low frequency of LTFs on the west slope of GM as well as the preference for LTFs to occur at higher elevations later at night, as the CAP depth increases.

scholarly journals Thermal Submeso Motions in the Nocturnal Stable Boundary Layer. Part 2: Generating Mechanisms and Implications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Pfister ◽  
Karl Lapo ◽  
Larry Mahrt ◽  
Christoph K. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Stable Boundary Layer ◽  
Side Wall ◽  
Cold Pool ◽  
Continuous Data ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Cold Air ◽  
Stable Boundary ◽  
Surface Temperatures

AbstractIn the stable boundary layer, thermal submesofronts (TSFs) are detected during the Shallow Cold Pool experiment in the Colorado plains, Colorado, USA in 2012. The topography induces TSFs by forming two different air layers converging on the valley-side wall while being stacked vertically above the valley bottom. The warm-air layer is mechanically generated by lee turbulence that consistently elevates near-surface temperatures, while the cold-air layer is thermodynamically driven by radiative cooling and the corresponding cold-air drainage decreases near-surface temperatures. The semi-stationary TSFs can only be detected, tracked, and investigated in detail when using fibre-optic distributed sensing (FODS), as point observations miss TSFs most of the time. Neither the occurrence of TSFs nor the characteristics of each air layer are connected to a specific wind or thermal regime. However, each air layer is characterized by a specific relationship between the wind speed and the friction velocity. Accordingly, a single threshold separating different flow regimes within the boundary layer is an oversimplification, especially during the occurrence of TSFs. No local forcings or their combination could predict the occurrence of TSFs except that they are less likely to occur during stronger near-surface or synoptic-scale flow. While classical conceptualizations and techniques of the boundary layer fail in describing the formation of TSFs, the use of spatially continuous data obtained from FODS provide new insights. Future studies need to incorporate spatially continuous data in the horizontal and vertical planes, in addition to classic sensor networks of sonic anemometry and thermohygrometers to fully characterize and describe boundary-layer phenomena.

Low-frequency critical current noise in Josephson junctions induced by temperature fluctuations

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (9) ◽  
pp. 092601 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Anton ◽  
C. D. Nugroho ◽  
J. S. Birenbaum ◽  
S. R. O’Kelley ◽  
V. Orlyanchik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Current ◽  
Josephson Junctions ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Temperature Fluctuations ◽  
Current Noise

Idealized large-eddy simulations of stratocumulus advecting over cold water. Part 1: Boundary layer decoupling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youtong Zheng ◽  
Haipeng Zhang ◽  
Daniel Rosenfeld ◽  
Seoung-Soo Lee ◽  
Tianning Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Cold Water ◽  
Temperature Inversion ◽  
Atmospheric Modeling ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Entrainment Rate ◽  
Surface Cooling ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Large Eddy

AbstractWe explore the decoupling physics of a stratocumulus-topped boundary layer (STBL) moving over cooler water, a situation mimicking the warm air advection (WADV). We simulate an initially well-mixed STBL over a doubly periodic domain with the sea surface temperature decreasing linearly over time using the System for Atmospheric Modeling large-eddy model. Due to the surface cooling, the STBL becomes increasingly stably stratified, manifested as a near-surface temperature inversion topped by a well-mixed cloud-containing layer. Unlike the stably stratified STBL in cold air advection (CADV) that is characterized by cumulus coupling, the stratocumulus deck in the WADV is unambiguously decoupled from the sea surface, manifested as weakly negative buoyancy flux throughout the sub-cloud layer. Without the influxes of buoyancy from the surface, the convective circulation in the well-mixed cloud-containing layer is driven by cloud-top radiative cooling. In such a regime, the downdrafts propel the circulation, in contrast to that in CADV regime for which the cumulus updrafts play a more determinant role. Such a contrast in convection regime explains the difference in many aspects of the STBLs including the entrainment rate, cloud homogeneity, vertical exchanges of heat and moisture, and lifetime of the stratocumulus deck, with the last being subject to a more thorough investigation in part 2. Finally, we investigate under what conditions a secondary stratus near the surface (or fog) can form in the WADV. We found that weaker subsidence favors the formation of fog whereas a more rapid surface cooling rate doesn’t.

Dispersion relations, rays and ray splitting in magnetohelioseismology

2005 ◽  
Vol 364 (1839) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.S Cally
Keyword(s):  
Strong Field ◽  
Mode Conversion ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Active Regions ◽  
Dispersion Relations ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Wave Splitting ◽  
Proper Account ◽  
Acoustic Dispersion ◽  
Field Inclination

Local helioseismology seeks to probe the near surface regions of the Sun, and in particular of active regions. These are distinguished by their strong magnetic fields, yet current local techniques do not take proper account of this. Here, we first derive appropriate gravito-magneto-acoustic dispersion relations, and then use these to examine how acoustic rays entering regions of strong field split into fast and slow components, and the subsequent fates of each. Specifically, two types of transmission point, where wave energy can transfer from the fast to slow branch (or vice versa) are identified; one close to the equipartition level where the sound and Alfvén speeds coincide, and one higher up near the acoustic cutoff turning point. This second type only exists for rays of low frequency or low l though. In accord with recent studies of fast-to-slow mode conversion from the perspective of p-modes, magnetic field inclination is found to have significant consequences for wave splitting.

scholarly journals Simulations of a cold-air pool associated with elevated wintertime ozone in the Uintah Basin, Utah

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 15953-16000 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Neemann ◽  
E. T. Crosman ◽  
J. D. Horel ◽  
L. Avey
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Snow Cover ◽  
Layer Structure ◽  
Inversion Layer ◽  
Cloud Microphysics ◽  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Cold Air ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Uintah Basin

Abstract. Numerical simulations are used to investigate the meteorological characteristics of the 1–6 February 2013 cold-air pool in the Uintah Basin, Utah, and the resulting high ozone concentrations. Flow features affecting cold-air pools and air quality in the Uintah Basin are studied, including: penetration of clean air into the basin from across the surrounding mountains, elevated easterlies within the inversion layer, and thermally-driven slope and valley flows. The sensitivity of the boundary layer structure to cloud microphysics and snow cover variations are also examined. Ice-dominant clouds enhance cold-air pool strength compared to liquid-dominant clouds by increasing nocturnal cooling and decreasing longwave cloud forcing. Snow cover increases boundary layer stability by enhancing the surface albedo, reducing the absorbed solar insolation at the surface, and lowering near-surface air temperatures. Snow cover also increases ozone levels by enhancing solar radiation available for photochemical reactions.

Dynamics in a Nonfragile Glass-Forming Liquid

1996 ◽  
Vol 455 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Rufflé ◽  
S. Beaufils ◽  
J. Etrillard ◽  
J. Gallier ◽  
B. Toudic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Relaxation ◽  
Mode Coupling ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Large Temperature ◽  
Coupling Theory ◽  
Mode Coupling Theory ◽  
Glass Forming ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Wide Energy ◽  
Fragile Glass

ABSTRACTThe dynamics of Na0.5Li0.5PO3 (Tg = 515 K, Tm = 749 K) a non fragile glass forming liquid has been investigated over a large temperature range (300 − 1000 K.) and in a wide energy window using various experimental techniques. The susceptibility spectra obtained by coherent neutron scattering and depolarized light scattering between 1 and 104 GHz show mainly two contributions: a low frequency vibrational peak, the so-called Boson peak and a quasielastic component, referred to the βfast process in the mode coupling theory (MCT).The data are discussed in relation to the mode coupling theory for the liquid glass transition. In particular, the temperature evolution of the susceptibility height in the βfast region is compatible with a crossover temperature Tc ∼ 620 K which is also deduced from a power law temperature dependence of the structural relaxation timescale. As a secondary βslow process, observed by 31P NMR, decouples from the structural relaxation timescale also below 600 K, a real change in the dynamics seems to occur around Tc ∼ 620 K = 1.2 Tg in this non fragile glass Conning liquid.

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNSTEADY COMBUSTOR TURBINE INTERACTION FOR FLEXIBLE POWER GENERATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Federico Lo Presti ◽  
Marwick Sembritzky ◽  
Benjamin Winhart ◽  
Pascal Post ◽  
Francesca di Mare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Frequency ◽  
Temperature Fluctuations ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Periodic Load ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
Periodic Disturbances ◽  
Turbine Inlet ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Industrial Gas Turbine

Abstract In the present study low-frequency disturbances introduced by a periodic load variation have been simulated and superimposed to the inhomogeneous, unsteady flow entering a 3-stage, high-pressure industrial gas turbine fed by a can-type combustion chamber comprising 6 silo-burners. The effects of the unsteadiness realized at the combustor exit have been investigated by means of Detached Eddy Simulations, whereby a density-based solution approach with detailed thermodynamics has been employed. The periodic disturbances at the turbine inlet have been obtained by means of an artificially generated, unsteady field, resulting from a two-dimensional snapshot of the flow field at the combustor exit. Also, a combustor failure has been mimicked by reducing (respectively increasing) the mean temperature in some of the turbine inlet regions corresponding to the outlet of two burners. The propagation and amplitude changes of temperature fluctuations have been analyzed in the frequency domain. Tracking of the temperature fluctuations' maxima at the lowest frequencies revealed characteristic migration patterns indicating that the corresponding fluctuations persist with a non-negligible amplitude up to the last rows. A distinct footprint could also be observed at the same locations when a combustor failure was simulated, showing that, in principle, the early detection of combustor failures is indeed possible.

Multiple Timescales of the Southern Annular Mode

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuyan Zhang ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Zhaohua Wu
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variability ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Austral Summer ◽  
Zonal Flow ◽  
Southern Annular Mode ◽  
Multiple Timescales ◽  
Annular Mode ◽  
Flow Interactions ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sst Anomalies

<p>Using the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) method, this study systematically investigates the multiple timescales of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and identifies their relative contributions to the low-frequency persistence of SAM. Analyses show that the subseasonal sustaining of SAM mainly depends on the contribution of longer-timescale variabilities, especially the cross-seasonal variability. When subtracting the cross-seasonal variability from the SAM, the positive covariance between the eddy and zonal flow, which is suggested the positive eddy feedback in SAM, disappears. Composite analysis shows that only with strong cross-seasonal variability, the meridional shift of zonal wind, eddy momentum forcing and baroclinicity anomalies can be maintained for more than 20 days, mainly resulting from the longer-timescale (especially the cross-seasonal timescale) eddy-zonal flow interactions. This study further suggests that the dipolar sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the mid latitude of Southern Hemisphere (SH) is a possible cause for the cross-seasonal variability. Analysis shows that about half of the strong cross-seasonal timescale events are accompanied by evident dipolar SST anomalies, which mostly occur in austral summer. The cross-seasonal dependence of the eddy-zonal flow interactions suggests the longer-timescale (especially the cross-seasonal timescale) contribution cannot be neglected in subseasonal prediction of SAM.</p>

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