A new sub-grid scale lift formulation in a mountain drag parameterisation scheme
A new sub-grid scale lift formulation in a mountain drag parameterisation scheme
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山地阻力参数化方案中新的子网格尺度升力公式
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2008
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R. Mládek
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B. Catry;J. Geleyn;F. Bouyssel;J. Cedilnik;R. Brožková;M. Derková;R. Mládek
A new sub-grid scale lift formulation in a mountain drag parameterisation scheme is presented. The main novelty is a new approach to make the lift force act on an estimate of the geostrophic wind vector (instead of acting on the local near-surface wind vector). The goal of this new formulation is to avoid the envelope orography which is otherwise still needed in the ALADIN/ARPEGE Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model. The validation of this new lift formulation inside the ARPEGE/ALADIN parameterisation for sub-grid scale orographic effects takes place on three prediction scales with their proper tools: (1) semi-idealised tests performed by ALADIN on an idealised flow over a complex orography to yield momentum budgets; (2) regional scale tests using the operational Central European version of ALADIN to produce verification scores over Central Europe; and (3) global scale tests using the ARPEGE-NWP model to render statistically significant scores over the different continents. The new lift formulation is able to mimic the additional change in wind direction due to an envelope orography, while avoiding its unfavourable effects e.g. on the simulated precipitation. The updated parameterisation scheme has become resolution independent and the impact of the parameterisation disappears somewhere between a horizontal mesh size of 2.5 and 5 km. Finally, the operational performance of the new scheme in the ARPEGE/ALADIN system is demonstrated.