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Modeling of the vertical structure of the nocturnal boundary layer over a rough surface

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The results of numerical simulation of some features of the structure of the nocturnal atmospheric boundary layer over the urbanized surface are presented. The mesoscale model includes improved nonlocal parametrization of turbulence developed based on the three-parameter model of turbulence. The turbulent Prandtl number appears to be stably dependent on the gradient Richardson number, and the vertical turbulent heat transport is contragradient. It was shown that the structural features of an “upside-down” boundary layer are detected in the stable atmospheric boundary layer.

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  1. Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch, 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 Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch, 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, 2009, published in Optika Atmosfery i Okeana.

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Kurbatskii, A.F., Kurbatskaya, L.I. Modeling of the vertical structure of the nocturnal boundary layer over a rough surface. Atmos Ocean Opt 22, 173–179 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856009020067

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