Land–atmosphere interactions in the tropics–a review

P Gentine, A Massmann, BR Lintner… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
The continental tropics play a leading role in the terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles.
Land–atmosphere interactions are integral in the regulation of these fluxes across multiple …

Implications of nonlocal transport and conditionally averaged statistics on Monin–Obukhov similarity theory and Townsend's attached eddy hypothesis

Q Li, P Gentine, JP Mellado… - Journal of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
According to Townsend's hypothesis, so-called wall-attached eddies are the main
contributors to turbulent transport in the atmospheric surface layer (ASL). This is also one of …

How wind shear affects trade‐wind cumulus convection

KC Helfer, L Nuijens, SR De Roode… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by an observed relationship between marine low cloud cover and surface wind
speed, this study investigates how vertical wind shear affects trade‐wind cumulus …

Connection between mass flux transport and eddy diffusivity in convective atmospheric boundary layers

Q Li, Y Cheng, P Gentine - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Turbulence parameterizations for convective boundary layer in coarse‐scale atmospheric
models usually consider a combination of the eddy‐diffusive transport and a non‐local …

Characterising the shape, size, and orientation of cloud‐feeding coherent boundary‐layer structures

L Denby, SJ Böing, DJ Parker, AN Ross… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Two techniques are presented for characterisation of cloud‐feeding coherent boundary‐
layer structures through analysis of large‐eddy simulations of shallow cumulus clouds …

Size‐Dependent Characteristics of Surface‐Rooted Three‐Dimensional Convective Objects in Continental Shallow Cumulus Simulations

PJ Griewank, T Heus… - Journal of Advances in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A segmentation algorithm is applied to high resolution simulations of shallow continental
convection to identify individual convective 3D objects within the convective boundary layer …

Large Eddy simulation on horizontal convective rolls that caused an aircraft accident during its Landing at Narita Airport

J Ito, H Niino, K Yoshino - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An accident occurred when an aircraft landed at Narita International Airport, Japan, on 20
June 2012. The aircraft encountered rapid changes of winds together with strong turbulence …

[HTML][HTML] Coherent flow structures and pollutant dispersion in a street canyon

SB Park, JJ Baik, BS Han - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2022 - Springer
Coherent flow structures and pollutant dispersion in a spanwise-long street canyon are
investigated using a parallelized large-eddy-simulation model. Low-and high-concentration …

[HTML][HTML] Role of wind shear in the decay of convective boundary layers

SB Park, JJ Baik, BS Han - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
The role of wind shear in the decay of the convective boundary layer (CBL) is systematically
investigated using a series of large-eddy simulations. Nine CBLs with weak, intermediate …

Effects of Surface and Top Wind Shear on the Spatial Organization of Marine Stratocumulus‐Topped Boundary Layers

M Zamora Zapata, T Heus… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The convective nature of Stratocumulus topped boundary layers (STBL) involves the motion
of updrafts and downdrafts, driven by surface fluxes and radiative cooling, respectively. The …