Stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers

L Mahrt - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Atmospheric boundary layers with weak stratification are relatively well described by
similarity theory and numerical models for stationary horizontally homogeneous conditions …

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 …

Review of wave‐turbulence interactions in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

J Sun, CJ Nappo, L Mahrt, D Belušić… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Flow in a stably stratified environment is characterized by anisotropic and intermittent
turbulence and wavelike motions of varying amplitudes and periods. Understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Wind and temperature oscillations generated by wave–turbulence interactions in the stably stratified boundary layer

J Sun, L Mahrt, C Nappo… - Journal of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The authors investigate atmospheric internal gravity waves (IGWs): their generation and
induction of global intermittent turbulence in the nocturnal stable atmospheric boundary …

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 …

Current challenges in orographic flow dynamics: turbulent exchange due to low-level gravity-wave processes

SB Vosper, AN Ross, IA Renfrew, P Sheridan… - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper examines current understanding of the influence of orographic flow dynamics on
the turbulent transport of momentum and scalar quantities above complex terrain. It …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent slope flows up to Grashof number

MG Giometto, GG Katul, J Fang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Stably stratified turbulent flows over an unbounded, smooth, planar sloping surface at high
Grashof numbers are examined using direct numerical simulations (DNS). Four sloping …

[HTML][HTML] Gravity wave excitation during the coastal transition of an extreme katabatic flow in Antarctica

É Vignon, G Picard, C Durán-Alarcón… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Gravity Wave Excitation during the Coastal Transition of an Extreme Katabatic Flow in
Antarctica in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 77 Issue 4 (2020) Jump to …

An analytic solution for time‐periodic thermally driven slope flows

D Zardi, S Serafin - … Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The article examines the flow generated by time‐periodic variations in surface temperature
along an infinite slope in an initially unperturbed, stably stratified atmosphere at rest …

Evolution of cold-air-pooling processes in complex terrain

P Burns, C Chemel - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2014 - Springer
Elucidating cold-air-pooling processes forms part of the longstanding problem of
parametrizing the effects of complex terrain in larger-scale numerical models. The Weather …