Diagnoses and Numerical Simulations of Turbulence in the Vicinity of Coastal Topography
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Miller, Douglas K.
Walters, Donald L.
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2002
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A TKE-free method for estimating optical
turbulence has been introduced which gives results
as accurate as the TKE-based method described in
Walters and Miller (1999) and in Miller and
Walters (2001). Comparisons for simulations over
the course of a year for a domain having significant
orographic effects has shown the TKE-free method
to be more robust, particularly in instances of (1)
high wind shear near the surface at nighttime, (2)
topographically induced gravity waves aloft, and
(3) within the elevated daytime PBL inversion.
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