Linking the different diameter types of aspherical desert dust indicates that models underestimate coarse dust emission

Y Huang, AA Adebiyi, P Formenti… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of dust aerosol size usually obtain the optical or projected area‐equivalent
diameters, whereas model calculations of dust impacts use the geometric or aerodynamic …

Intercomparison of planetary boundary layer heights using remote sensing retrievals and ERA5 reanalysis over Central Amazonia

CQ Dias-Júnior, RG Carneiro, G Fisch, FAF D'Oliveira… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The atmospheric boundary layer height (zi) is a key parameter in the vertical transport of
mass, energy, moisture, and chemical species between the surface and the free …

Investigation of atmospheric boundary layer characteristics using ceilometer lidar, COSMIC GPS RO satellite, radiosonde and ERA-5 reanalysis dataset over Western …

S Saha, S Sharma, KN Kumar, P Kumar, S Lal… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) characteristics are investigated using a
Ceilometer Lidar over Ahmedabad, a semi-arid region in western India. Strong diurnal …

Turbulence organization and mean profile shapes in the stably stratified boundary layer: zones of uniform momentum and air temperature

M Heisel, PP Sullivan, GG Katul… - Boundary-Layer …, 2023 - Springer
A persistent spatial organization of eddies is identified in the lowest portion of the stably
stratified planetary boundary layer. The analysis uses flow realizations from published large …

Investigating the Diurnal Radiative, Turbulent, and Biophysical Processes in the Amazonian Canopy‐Atmosphere Interface by Combining LES Simulations and …

X Pedruzo‐Bagazgoitia, EG Patton… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the atmospheric diurnal variability inside and above the Amazonian
rainforest for a representative day during the dry season. To this end, we combine high …

Anisotropy of unstably stratified near-surface turbulence

I Stiperski, M Chamecki, M Calaf - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Classic Monin–Obukov similarity scaling states that in a stationary, horizontally
homogeneous flow, in the absence of subsidence, turbulence is dictated by the balance …

A case study of a gravity wave induced by Amazon forest orography and low level jet generation

PB Corrêa, CQ Dias-Júnior, D Cava, M Sörgel… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigated the role of turbulent coherent structures (CS), gravity waves (GW) and low-
level jet (LLJ) propagation in the flow dynamics of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer (NBL) …

Investigating carbonyl compounds above the Amazon rainforest using a proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) with NO+ chemical …

A Ringsdorf, A Edtbauer, B Holanda… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
The photochemistry of carbonyl compounds significantly influences tropospheric chemical
composition by altering the local oxidative capacity; free radical abundance in the upper …

[HTML][HTML] The near-surface turbulent kinetic energy characteristics under the different convection regimes at four towers with contrasting underlying surfaces

B Tong, J Guo, Y Wang, J Li, Y Yun, R Solanki… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) is widely used to characterize the spatio-temporal changes
of atmospheric turbulence. The objective of this study is to investigate the near-surface TKE …

Adjustments to the law of the wall above an Amazon forest explained by a spectral link

L Mortarini, GG Katul, D Cava, CQ Dias-Junior… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Modification to the law of the wall represented by a dimensionless correction function ϕ RSL
(z/h) is derived using atmospheric turbulence measurements collected at two sites in the …