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On the incorporation of atmospheric boundary layer effects into a balanced model
Author(s) -
Cullen M. J. P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49711548906
Subject(s) - geostrophic wind , forcing (mathematics) , boundary layer , planetary boundary layer , circulation (fluid dynamics) , atmospheric sciences , thermal , coupling (piping) , meteorology , geology , scale (ratio) , mechanics , climatology , environmental science , physics , materials science , quantum mechanics , metallurgy
A method of coupling the thermal and frictional forcing in the atmospheric boundary layer to a semi‐geostrophic model of the internal dynamics is developed. It is illustrated by two‐dimensional sea‐breeze simulations, which are compared with those of a two‐dimensional primitive equation model. It is demonstrated that the main features of the circulation on a horizontal scale larger than 20 km can be simulated with the semi‐geostrophic model, but the detailed local circulations cannot.
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