ERC Starting Grant · 2019
Turbulence-Resolving Approaches to the Intermittently Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Vertical exchange in the atmospheric boundary is primarily due to turbulence, but turbulence may cease locally as a consequence of stable density stratification. This state of turbulence intermittency challenges traditional geophysical approaches to represent turbulent mixing. Field observations of the phenomenon are hard to obtain because of broad-scale interacting processes. Existing numerical approaches based on bulk turbulence closures reach their limits because they neglect the relevance of large-scale intermittency for turbulent mixing. Hence, process-level insight to turbulence intermittency in the atmospheric boundary layer is lacking which has dramatic consequences for the forecast…
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