scholarly journals Turbulent kinetic energy balance in the atmospheric surface layer over a tropical region

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
B. PADMANABHAMURTY ◽  
PIALI CHAKRABORTY
Keyword(s):  
Surface Layer ◽  
Energy Balance ◽  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Turbulent Kinetic Energy ◽  
Energy Budget ◽  
Atmospheric Surface Layer ◽  
Tropical Region ◽  
Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget ◽  
Similarity Relations ◽  
Kinetic Energy Budget

    ABSTRACT. The various tenns of the turbulent kinetic energy budget in the surface layer over Jodhpur, India have been worked out and compared with established similarity relations. The turbulent production and dissipation tend to balance under moderately unstable conditions for most of the runs considered for investigation.    

Turbulence Structure of the Hurricane Boundary Layer between the Outer Rainbands

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 2455-2467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun A. Zhang ◽  
William M. Drennan ◽  
Peter G. Black ◽  
Jeffrey R. French
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Turbulent Kinetic Energy ◽  
Energy Budget ◽  
Specific Humidity ◽  
Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget ◽  
Layer Height ◽  
Boundary Layer Height ◽  
Kinetic Energy Budget ◽  
Hurricane Boundary Layer

Abstract As part of the Coupled Boundary Layers Air–Sea Transfer (CBLAST)-Hurricane program, flights were conducted to directly measure turbulent fluxes and turbulence properties in the high-wind boundary layer of hurricanes between the outer rainbands. For the first time, vertical profiles of normalized momentum fluxes, sensible heat and humidity fluxes, and variances of three-dimensional wind velocities and specific humidity are presented for the hurricane boundary layer with surface wind speeds ranging from 20 to 30 m s−1. The turbulent kinetic energy budget is estimated, indicating that the shear production and dissipation are the major source and sink terms, respectively. The imbalance in the turbulent kinetic energy budget indicates that the unmeasured terms, such as horizontal advection, may be important in hurricane boundary layer structure and dynamics. Finally, the thermodynamic boundary layer height, estimated based on the virtual potential temperature profiles, is roughly half of the boundary layer height estimated from the momentum flux profiles. The latter height where momentum and humidity fluxes tend to vanish is close to that of the inflow layer and also of the maximum in the tangential velocity profiles.

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