Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41475012 and 40975004);National Key Basic Research and Development(973)Program of China(2010CB428501)
Large-eddy simulations are conducted to investigate the impacts of the scale of chessboard-like heteroge- neous surface heating and the background wind on secondary circulations (SCs) in the convective boundary lay...
sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40975004);the State Key Basic Program(973)Program(Grant No.2013CB430100)
The entrainment flux ratio Ae and the inversion layer (IL) thickness are two key parameters in a mixed layer model. Ae is defined as the ratio of the entrainment heat flux at the mixed layer top to the surface heat ...
sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40975004);the State Key Basic Program(973)(Grant No.2013CB430100)
Following the parameterization of sheared entrainment obtained in the companion paper, Liu et al. (2016), the present study aims to further investigate the characteristics of entrainment, and develop a simple model ...