著者

Yuji KITAMURA Akihiro HORI Toshimasa YAGI

出版者

Meteorological Society of Japan

雑誌

気象集誌. 第2輯 (ISSN:00261165)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.91, no.5, pp.655-666, 2013 (Released:2013-11-29)

参考文献数

26

被引用文献数

5 9

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Wind tunnel experiments and large-eddy simulations for stable stratification are performed to specify flux Richardson number Rf and turbulent Prandtl number Pr as a function of gradient Richardson number Ri. We attempted to avoid self-correlation by using independent samples for the variables commonly contained in these nondimensional numbers and confirmed the dependence of Rf and Pr on Ri for 10−3 < Ri < 5. We found that Rf could exceed unity in a stable boundary layer under a developing stage, while the assumption of local energy balance violates for Rf > 1, which corresponds to negative production of turbulent kinetic energy. Nevertheless, the analysis of the TKE budget shows that the third-order term in the prognostic equation of TKE, which plays a role in the TKE transfer, can contribute to increase TKE despite negative TKE production. Therefore, TKE cannot be determined locally and the effects of TKE transfer must be taken into account in the region satisfying Rf > 1.