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Three-parameter model of turbulence for the atmospheric boundary layer over an urbanized surface

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A modified three-parameter model of turbulence for a thermally stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is presented. The model is based on tensor-invariant parametrizations for the pressure-strain and pressure-temperature correlations that are more complete than the parametrizations used in the Mellor-Yamada model of level 3.0. The turbulent momentum and heat fluxes are calculated with explicit algebraic models obtained with the aid of symbol algebra from the transport equations for momentum and heat fluxes in the approximation of weakly equilibrium turbulence. The turbulent transport of heat and momentum fluxes is assumed to be negligibly small in this approximation. The three-parameter E − ε − <ϑ2> model of thermally stratified turbulence is employed to obtain closed-form algebraic expressions for the fluxes. A computational test of a 24-h ABL evolution is implemented for an idealized two-dimensional region. Comparison of the computed results with the available observational data and other numerical models shows that the proposed model is able to reproduce both the most important structural features of the turbulence in an urban canopy layer near the urbanized ABL surface and the effect of urban roughness on a global structure of the fields of wind and temperature over a city. The results of the computational test for the new model indicate that the motion of air in the urban canopy layer is strongly influenced by mechanical factors (buildings) and thermal stratification.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya ul. 4/1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    A. F. Kurbatskii

  2. Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    A. F. Kurbatskii

  3. Institute of Numerical Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Lavrent’eva 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    L. I. Kurbatskaya

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Original Russian Text © A.F. Kurbatskii, L.I. Kurbatskaya, 2006, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2006, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 476–494.

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Kurbatskii, A.F., Kurbatskaya, L.I. Three-parameter model of turbulence for the atmospheric boundary layer over an urbanized surface. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 42, 439–455 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433806040049

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