Development of a Single-Column Model in RegCM4 and Its Preliminary Application for Evaluating PBL Schemes in Simulating the Dry Convection Boundary Layer  

作　　者：HAN Zhen-yu WANG Yu-xing 韩振宇;王宇星(National Climate Center,China Meteorological Administration,Beijing 100081 China;National Marine Hazard Mitigation Service,Ministry of Natural Resources,Beijing 100194 China)

机构地区：[1]National Climate Center,China Meteorological Administration,Beijing 100081 China [2]National Marine Hazard Mitigation Service,Ministry of Natural Resources,Beijing 100194 China

出　　处：《Journal of Tropical Meteorology》2021年第3期259-271,共13页热带气象学报（英文版）

基　　金：National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0606301;2020YFA0608201;2017YFA0605004);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41405101)。

摘　　要：A single-column model(SCM)is developed in the regional climate model RegCM4.The evolution of a dry convection boundary layer(DCBL)is used to evaluate this SCM.Moreover,four planetary boundary layer(PBL)schemes,namely the Holtslag-Boville scheme(HB),Yonsei University scheme(YSU),and two University of Washington schemes(UW01,Grenier-Bretherton-Mc Caa scheme and UW09,Bretherton-Park scheme),are compared by using the SCM approach.A large-eddy simulation(LES)of the DCBL is performed as a benchmark to examine how well a PBL parameterization scheme reproduces the LES results,and several diagnostic outputs are compared to evaluate the schemes.The results show that the SCM is properly constructed.In general,with the DCBL case,the YSU scheme performs best for reproducing the LES results,which include well-mixed features and vertical sensible heat fluxes;the simulated wind speed,turbulent kinetic energy,entrainment flux,and height of the entrainment zone are all underestimated in the UW09;the UW01 has all those biases of the UW09 but larger,and the simulated potential temperature is not well mixed;the HB is the least skillful scheme,by which the PBL height,entrainment flux,height of the entrainment zone,and the vertical gradients within the mixed layer are all overestimated,and a inversion layer near the top of the surface layer is wrongly simulated.Although more cases and further testing are required,these simulations show encouraging results towards the use of this SCM framework for evaluating the simulated physical processes by the RegCM4.

关 键 词：single-column model RegCM4 dry convection boundary layer boundary layer schemes 

分 类 号：P46[天文地球—大气科学及气象学]