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A scheme for computing surface layer turbulent fluxes from mean flow surface observations
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hoffert, M. I. Storch, J. |
| Copyright Year | 1978 |
| Description | A physical model and computational scheme are developed for generating turbulent surface stress, sensible heat flux and humidity flux from mean velocity, temperature and humidity at some fixed height in the atmospheric surface layer, where conditions at this reference level are presumed known from observations or the evolving state of a numerical atmospheric circulation model. The method is based on coupling the Monin-Obukov surface layer similarity profiles which include buoyant stability effects on mean velocity, temperature and humidity to a force-restore formulation for the evolution of surface soil temperature to yield the local values of shear stress, heat flux and surface temperature. A self-contained formulation is presented including parameterizations for solar and infrared radiant fluxes at the surface. Additional parameters needed to implement the scheme are the thermal heat capacity of the soil per unit surface area, surface aerodynamic roughness, latitude, solar declination, surface albedo, surface emissivity and atmospheric transmissivity to solar radiation. |
| File Size | 2603252 |
| Page Count | 35 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19780019748 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8x970w2r |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1978-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Atmospheric Circulation Turbulent Heat Transfer Atmospheric Turbulence Micrometeorology Atmospheric Models Atmospheric Stratification Shear Stress Atmospheric Moisture Surface Layers Heat Flux Boundary Layer Flow Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |