Understanding thermally driven slope winds: Recent advances and open questions

S Farina, D Zardi - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2023 - Springer
The paper reviews recent advances in our understanding about the dynamics of thermally
driven winds over sloping terrain. Major progress from recent experiments, both in the field …

The impact of mesh size, turbulence parameterization, and land‐surface‐exchange scheme on simulations of the mountain boundary layer in the hectometric range

B Goger, A Dipankar - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The horizontal grid spacing of numerical weather prediction models keeps decreasing
towards the hectometric range. We perform limited‐area simulations with the Icosahedral …

An analytical model for daily‐periodic slope winds. Part 1: Surface radiation budget

M Marchio, S Farina, D Zardi - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an analytical model for calculating representative daily‐periodic cycles
of net surface radiation on a slope with any angle α α (0∘≤ α≤ 9 0∘ 0^ ∘ ≤ α ≤ 9 0^ ∘) …

An analytical model for daily‐periodic slope winds. Part 2: Solutions

M Marchio, S Farina, D Zardi - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an analytical model for the diurnal cycle of slope‐normal profiles of
potential temperature and wind speed characterizing thermally driven slope winds …

Unsupervised multi-scale diagnostics

K Lapo, SM Ichinaga, N Kutz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02396, 2024 - arxiv.org
The unsupervised and principled diagnosis of multi-scale data is a fundamental obstacle in
modern scientific problems from, for instance, weather and climate prediction, neurology …

Correlation analysis of evapotranspiration, emissivity contrast and water deficit indices: A case study in four eddy covariance sites in italy with different environmental …

M Torresani, G Masiello, N Vendrame, G Gerosa… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evapotranspiration (ET) represents one of the essential processes controlling the exchange
of energy by terrestrial vegetation, providing a strong connection between energy and water …

Energy and mass exchange at an urban site in mountainous terrain–the Alpine city of Innsbruck

HC Ward, MW Rotach, A Gohm, M Graus… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
This study represents the first detailed analysis of multi-year, near-surface turbulence
observations for an urban area located in highly complex terrain. Using 4 years of eddy …

Six years of high-resolution climatic data collected along an elevation gradient in the Italian Alps

A Zandonai, V Fontana, J Klotz, G Bertoldi, H Crepaz… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
The complex meso-and microclimatic heterogeneity inherent to mountainous regions, driven
by both topographic and biotic factors, and the lack of observations, poses significant …

Analysis of chemical and transport processes of biogenic aerosols over the northern Apennines: insights from the WRF-CHIMERE model

B Vitali, M Bettineschi, A Cholakian, D Zardi… - Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Sources and transport processes of aerosols over the Italian northern Apennines are
investigated with a focus on the area of the WMO/GAW global station of Mt. Cimone (CMN …

Diurnal valley winds in a deep alpine valley: Model results

J Schmidli, J Quimbayo-Duarte - Meteorology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Thermally driven local winds are ubiquitous in deep Alpine valleys during fair weather
conditions resulting in a unique wind climatology for any given valley. The accurate …