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@ARTICLE{Poll:903176,
author = {Poll, S. and Shrestha, P. and Simmer, C.},
title = {{G}rid resolution dependency of land surface heterogeneity
effects on boundary‐layer structure},
journal = {Quarterly journal of the Royal Meteorological Society},
volume = {148},
number = {Part A},
issn = {0035-9009},
address = {Weinheim [u.a.]},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-04896},
pages = {141-158},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Land surface heterogeneity exerts a strong control on
atmospheric boundary-layer (ABL) evolution by spatially
varying the distribution and partitioning of surface energy
fluxes and triggering secondary circulations. The
representation of this physical process in numerical weather
prediction (NWP) models is especially affected in the terra
incognita as the model grid resolution approaches the
length-scale of the largest eddies in the boundary layer. We
explore these effects for a mesoscale strip-like land
surface inhomogeneity in land cover, soil moisture or a
superposition of both embedded in an elsewhere homogeneous
landscape. The study is conducted with the numerical weather
prediction model ICON (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic), using
the default operational level 2.5 Mellor–Yamada turbulence
closure (MY) and a large-eddy simulation (LES) configuration
as a benchmark. While simulations with the default ABL
scheme approach the LES reference when refining the spatial
grid towards finer resolution, the model generates
artificial circulations leading to ABL height oscillations
when the horizontal grid resolution (∆𝑥) approaches the
ABL height (𝑧𝑖). The effect of these model-induced
circulations on the state of the boundary layer is even
present with weak thermal heterogeneity (∆𝐻) under low
background wind speed (𝑣𝑥) but diminishes with
increasing background wind speed. The tuning of the
asymptotic turbulent mixing length-scale (𝑙∞) in the
operational ABL scheme helps in reducing the amplitude of
the oscillations, thereby reducing the artificially induced
circulations due to thermal heterogeneity which might act as
unintentional trigger for clouds and precipitation. Based on
the tuned synthetic model data from sensitivity runs, we
propose a new parametrization for a 2-D 𝑙∞ as a
function of ∆𝐻, 𝑧𝑖/∆𝑥 and 𝑣𝑥, which is
otherwise held as a constant in the ABL scheme.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
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)16},
UT = {WOS:000718939300001},
doi = {10.1002/qj.4196},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/903176},
}