Land-atmosphere Interaction over complex terrain: Hydrology and Large Eddy Simulation

山地气象过程涵盖了广泛的相互作用尺度，为数值天气预报带来了挑战。事实上，在山区，标准理论、测量技术、分析技术和参数化通常不是严格有效的，因此例外通常是规则。在这个项目中，我们将尝试利用新的测量技术来解决这些现有的困难，我们的团队将部署这些技术来研究从微观尺度（即湍流的耗散尺度，0 (1mm)）到中尺度的物理过程。我们将通过多方面的方法，利用现场实验、新开发的最先进的仪器和斜坡流动和吹雪的数值模拟，提高对山区地形流动物理的理解。******该项目的主要目标是在实地活动中利用新的仪器技术，并开发新一代数值工具，以：(i)提高对关键山地地形科学问题的理解，（ii）改进斜坡流动和雪运输的模拟。该项目的主要实验部分将是在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的Dischma山谷进行的实地活动。******在与雾的形成、森林火灾、融雪和空气质量有关的事件中，山区地形的近地表过程可能特别重要，在这些事件中，为平坦开阔地形设计的模型通常应用于山区。此外，近地表动力流动过程对于理解高山地形的雪输运过程非常重要。虽然已经进行了许多出色的实地和数值研究，但仍有许多开放的重要问题有待回答。在这里，我们的目标是通过专门的仪器和大涡模拟（LES）的新发展来回答这些问题的一个子集，用于斜坡流动和雪/冰表面上的雪运输。******考虑到这一研究领域的广度，我们将集中精力研究与山区近地表过程有关的几个关键科学问题。具体来说，我们将着眼于回答以下与山地地形的物理过程有关的问题：利用新的快速响应仪器测量潜热通量和感热通量，并仔细考虑平流和能量储存，能否在陡峭的非均质山坡上关闭地表能量收支？在早晚过渡期间，控制输运动力学的主要物理机制是什么？大气环流中地表剪切应力的驱动机制？***空气运动和雪运输的LES模拟能可靠地代表潜在的物理现象吗？ ***********

Mountain meteorological processes cover a wide range of interacting scales that introduce challenges for numerical weather prediction. In fact, in mountainous regions, exceptions are often the rule in the sense that standard theories, measurement techniques, analysis techniques, and parameterizations are usually not strictly valid. In this project, we will attempt to attack some of these existing difficulties by taking advantage of new measurement techniques that our team will deploy to study physical processes over scales ranging from the microscale (i.e., dissipation scales of turbulence, O(1mm)) into the meso-gamma scale. We will gain improved understanding of flow physics in mountainous terrain through a multifaceted approach utilizing field experiments, newly developed and state-of-the-art instrumentation and numerical simulations of slope flows and blowing snow.******The major aims of this project are to utilize novel instrumentation techniques in field campaigns and develop new generation numerical tools for: (i) improved understanding of critical mountain terrain science issues and (ii) improved simulations of slope flows and snow transport. The main experimental part of the project will be a field campaign to be conducted in the Dischma Valley of the Swiss Alps. ******Near surface processes in mountainous terrain can be particularly important in events related to fog formation, forest fires, snowmelt, and air quality, where models designed for flat open terrain are often applied over mountainous regions. In addition, near surface dynamical flow processes can be extremely important in understanding snow transport processes in alpine terrain. While many excellent field and numerical studies have been conducted, there are still a number of open important questions that remain to be answered. Here, we aim to answer a subset of those questions through targeted field experiments with specialized instrumentation and new developments in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) for slope flows and snow transport over snow/ice surfaces.******Given the breadth of this research area, we will focus our efforts on several key scientific questions related to near surface processes in mountain terrain. Specifically, we will look to answer the following questions related to physical processes in mountain terrain:***1. Can the surface energy budget be closed on steep heterogeneous mountainous slopes using new fast response instruments for measuring latent and sensible heat fluxes and carefully accounting for advection and energy storage?***2. What are the dominant physical mechanisms governing transport dynamics during morning and evening transition periods?***3. What mechanisms drive surface shear stress in atmospheric flows?***4. Can LES simulations of air movement and snow transport reliably represent the underlying physics.***********