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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5059-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
The influence of idealized surface heterogeneity on virtual turbulent flux measurements
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric
Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany
Matthias Mauder
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric
Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany
Institute of Geography and Geoecology (IfGG), Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstrasse 12, 76131 Karlsruhe,
Germany
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We investigate the mismatch between incoming energy and the turbulent flux of sensible heat at the Earth's surface and how surface heterogeneity affects this imbalance. To resolve the turbulent fluxes we employ large-eddy simulations. We study terrain with different heterogeneity lengths and quantify the contributions of advection by the mean flow and horizontal flux-divergence in the surface energy budget. We find that the latter contributions depend on the scale of the heterogeneity length.
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