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DOI | 10.1029/2018GL081867 |
Similarity Among Atmospheric Thermal Stratifications Over Elevated Surfaces Under Radiative-Convective Equilibrium | |
Nie, Ji1; Xia, Yan1; Hu, Shineng2; Yuan, Wei3; Yang, Jun1; Ma, Ding4 | |
2019-03-28 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 46期号:6页码:3512-3522 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Peoples R China; USA |
英文摘要 | An air column under radiative-convective equilibrium is studied here to understand equilibrium climate over different surface elevations. Cloud-resolving model (CRM) simulations show that atmospheric thermal stratifications exhibit similar structures when expressed in sigma coordinates over varying surface elevations under radiative-convective equilibrium. A zero-buoyancy plume model that reproduces CRM results is used to interpret related processes. As surface pressure decreases, decreased pressure on a certain sigma level leads to decreases of moist adiabatic temperature lapse rate, which largely cancel the increases of moist adiabatic lapse rate by temperature decreases. Meanwhile, the invariance of convective entrainment/detrainment rates keeps the deviation of environmental temperature lapse rate from moist adiabat approximately invariant, result in similar thermal stratifications under varying surface pressures. A comparison of thermodynamic profiles over the Tibetan Plateau with those over plains in reanalysis confirms the similarity found in CRM simulations. This similarity provides a useful simplification for representing the effects of convection. Plain Language Summary What constrains the vertical structure of the atmosphere over different surface elevations? Here it is found that the atmospheric vertical stratification exhibits similar structures in a specific vertical coordinate normalized by the mass of the column. Cloud-resolving numerical models are used to understand this similarity, which has significant implications for modeling convection in global climate models. |
英文关键词 | convection atmospheric vertical structure radiative-convective equilibrium cloud-resolving model |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000464650400054 |
WOS关键词 | TIBETAN PLATEAU ; SHALLOW ; MODEL ; CLIMATE ; RESOLUTION ; MONSOON ; SCHEME ; VIEW ; ASIA |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/181801 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Peking Univ, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA; 3.CAAC, Aviat Meteorol Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China; 4.Columbia Univ, Earth Inst, New York, NY 10027 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nie, Ji,Xia, Yan,Hu, Shineng,et al. Similarity Among Atmospheric Thermal Stratifications Over Elevated Surfaces Under Radiative-Convective Equilibrium[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(6):3512-3522. |
APA | Nie, Ji,Xia, Yan,Hu, Shineng,Yuan, Wei,Yang, Jun,&Ma, Ding.(2019).Similarity Among Atmospheric Thermal Stratifications Over Elevated Surfaces Under Radiative-Convective Equilibrium.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(6),3512-3522. |
MLA | Nie, Ji,et al."Similarity Among Atmospheric Thermal Stratifications Over Elevated Surfaces Under Radiative-Convective Equilibrium".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.6(2019):3512-3522. |
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