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Energetics of diabatic mesoscale circulation: A numerical study

✍ Scribed by G. A. Dalu; J. S. A. Green

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1980
Tongue
English
Weight
420 KB
Volume
106
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Mesoscale circulations, induced by mesoscale available potential energy diabatically generated in the boundary layer are studied through the numerical integration of primitive equations. The energetics of a sea‐breeze simulation is studied in some detail. After 12 hours of simulation the kinetic energy is about a quarter of the mesoscale available potential energy diabatically produced. We comment on the energy lost by the upstream difference scheme, and on some aspects of the unavailability of available potential energy in such a system that together describe this level of inefficiency.

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