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@PHDTHESIS{Zhang:1038891,
author = {Zhang, Lijie},
title = {{M}odelling {S}econdary {C}irculation in {C}onvective
{B}oundary {L}ayer {U}sing {L}arge {E}ddy {S}imulation},
volume = {652},
school = {Bonn},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-01702},
isbn = {978-3-95806-799-8},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {84},
year = {2024},
note = {Dissertation, Bonn, 2024},
abstract = {Mesoscale secondary circulations, which frequently arise
over heterogeneous land surfaces, profoundly influence
atmospheric structure and characteristics. Its structure is
primarily shaped by the combined effects of wind shear and
buoyancy. The turbulence generated by the secondary
circulation can considerably influence the fluxes, including
estimations employed in the Monin–Obukhov similarity
theory and measurements in eddy covariance systems. An
ever-increasing body of evidence points to secondary
circulations as the primary source of the reported
underestimation of heat flux (i.e., flux imbalance, FI) by
$10\%$ to $30\%$ across various sites. A series of large
eddy simulations (LES) were conducted in this PhD work to
investigate the formation of secondary circulations under
different conditions and to quantify its impact on flux
estimations. These included one-dimensional strip-like soil
moisture distribution with ambient wind speeds ranging from
0.5 𝑚𝑚𝑠𝑠−1 to 16 𝑚𝑚𝑠𝑠−1 in
various wind directions (Chapter 3), two-dimensional
checkerboard soil moisture distribution with heterogeneous
scales varying from 50 m to 2,400 m (Chapter 4). A secondary
circulation strength metric is proposed and found to have a
positive correlation with the Bowen ratio and heterogeneity
parameter, and a negative correlation with wind speeds when
the wind direction is perpendicular to the direction of
heterogeneity. It was observed that as the strength of the
secondary circulation increased, the turbulent heat flux
decreased, maintaining the same soil moisture conditions.
Two distinct secondary circulation schemes are identified
based on the heterogeneity scale: thermallyinduced secondary
circulations (TMCs) and turbulent organized structures
(TOS). The results of the LES were used to evaluate four
selected FI prediction models. These models demonstrated an
ability to capture the FI accurately. A novel first-order
nonlocal turbulence closure scheme has been proposed
(Chapter 5), namely the flux imbalance and K-theory (FLIMK),
which employs the FI prediction model to account for the
nonlocal processes and the conventional K-theory for the
local processes. The FLIMK scheme has been demonstrated to
reduce the flux imbalance from $15\%$ to $6\%$ in LES and
from $16\%$ to $6.7\%$ in numerical weather prediction (NWP)
models.},
cin = {IBG-3},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:0001-2502130838099.131982955189},
doi = {10.34734/FZJ-2025-01702},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1038891},
}