Diurnal mountain wind systems

D Zardi, CD Whiteman - … research and forecasting: Recent progress and …, 2012 - Springer
Diurnal mountain wind systems are local thermally driven wind systems that form over
mountainous terrain and are produced by the buoyancy effects associated with the diurnal …

Crossing multiple gray zones in the transition from mesoscale to microscale simulation over complex terrain

FK Chow, C Schär, N Ban, KA Lundquist, L Schlemmer… - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
This review paper explores the field of mesoscale to microscale modeling over complex
terrain as it traverses multiple so-called gray zones. In an attempt to bridge the gap between …

Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

EF Wood, JK Roundy, TJ Troy… - Water Resources …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Monitoring Earth's terrestrial water conditions is critically important to many hydrological
applications such as global food production; assessing water resources sustainability; and …

Capturing the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface processes using an integrated, distributed watershed model

SJ Kollet, RM Maxwell - Water Resources Research, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of groundwater dynamics on the energy balance at the land surface is studied
using an integrated, distributed watershed modeling platform. This model includes the mass …

Boundary-layer flow over complex topography

J Finnigan, K Ayotte, I Harman, G Katul… - Boundary-Layer …, 2020 - Springer
We review developments in the field of boundary-layer flow over complex topography,
focussing on the period from 1970 to the present day. The review follows two parallel …

Study of thermal comfort in courtyards in a hot arid climate

S Berkovic, A Yezioro, A Bitan - Solar Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
The outdoor thermal comfort in an enclosed courtyard has been studied numerically by the
three dimensional prognostic microclimate model, Envi-met 3.1. The effect of wind, and …

Large eddy simulation using the general circulation model ICON

A Dipankar, B Stevens, R Heinze… - Journal of Advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ICON (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic) is a unified modeling system for global numerical
weather prediction (NWP) and climate studies. Validation of its dynamical core against a test …

[HTML][HTML] Examining two-way grid nesting for large eddy simulation of the PBL using the WRF model

CH Moeng, J Dudhia, J Klemp… - Monthly weather …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The performance of two-way nesting for large eddy simulation (LES) of PBL turbulence is
investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting model framework. A pair of LES …

The Bolund experiment, part II: blind comparison of microscale flow models

A Bechmann, NN Sørensen, J Berg, J Mann… - Boundary-layer …, 2011 - Springer
Bolund measurements were used for a blind comparison of microscale flow models. Fifty-
seven models ranging from numerical to physical were used, including large-eddy …

The groundwater–land-surface–atmosphere connection: Soil moisture effects on the atmospheric boundary layer in fully-coupled simulations

RM Maxwell, FK Chow, SJ Kollet - Advances in Water Resources, 2007 - Elsevier
This study combines a variably-saturated groundwater flow model and a mesoscale
atmospheric model to examine the effects of soil moisture heterogeneity on atmospheric …