Characteristics of Water Vapor Turbulence Profiles in Convective Boundary Layers During the Dry and Wet Seasons Over Darwin

Osman, Mohammed K.; Turner, D. D.; Heus, T.; Newsom, R.

doi:10.1029/2017JD028060

Title: Characteristics of Water Vapor Turbulence Profiles in Convective Boundary Layers During the Dry and Wet Seasons Over Darwin

Journal Article · 23 April 2018 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028060 · OSTI ID:1441213

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The Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab., Norman, OK (United States)
NOAA Earth System Research Lab., Boulder, CO (United States)
Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Abstract This study explores water vapor turbulence in the convective boundary layer (CBL) using the Raman lidar observations from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site located at Darwin, Australia. An autocovariance technique was used to separate out the random instrument error from the atmospheric variability during time periods when the CBL is cloud‐free, quasi‐stationary, and well mixed. We identified 45 cases, comprising of 8 wet and 37 dry seasons events, over the 5‐year data record period. The dry season in Darwin is known by warm and dry sunny days, while the wet season is characterized by high humidity and monsoonal rains. The inherent variability of the latter resulted in a more limited number of cases during the wet season. Profiles of the integral scale, variance, coefficient of the structure function, and skewness were analyzed and compared with similar observations from the Raman lidar at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. The wet season shows larger median variance profiles than the dry season, while the median profile of the variance from the dry season and the SGP site are found to be more comparable particularly between 0.4 and 0.75 z _i . The variance and coefficient of the structure function show qualitatively the same vertical pattern. Furthermore, deeper CBL, larger gradient of water vapor mixing ratio at z _i , and the strong correlation with the water vapor variance at z _i are seen during the dry season. The median value in the skewness is mostly positive below 0.6 z _i unlike the SGP site.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0014375; AC05-76RL01830; DE‐SC0014375

OSTI ID:: 1441213

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1437514

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-125855

Journal Information:: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 123, Issue 10; ISSN 2169-897X

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