Climatological Features of the Weakly and Very Stably Stratified Nocturnal Boundary Layers. Part II: Regime Occupation and Transition Statistics and the Influence of External Drivers

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dc.contributor.authorAbraham, Carsten
dc.contributor.authorMonahan, Adam H.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-25T01:04:19Z
dc.date.available2020-11-25T01:04:19Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn a companion paper hidden Markov model (HMM) analyses have been conducted to classify the nocturnal stably stratified boundary layer (SBL) into weakly stable (wSBL) and very stable (vSBL) conditions at different tower sites on the basis of long-term Reynolds-averaged mean data. The resulting HMM regime sequences allow analysis of long-term (climatological) SBL regime statistics. In particular, statistical features of very persistent wSBL and vSBL nights, in which a single regime lasts for the entire night, are contrasted with those of nights with SBL regime transitions. The occurrence of very persistent nights is seasonally dependent and more likely in homogeneous surroundings than in regions with complex terrain. When transitions occur, their timing is not seasonally dependent, but transitions are enhanced close to sunset (for land-based sites). The regime event durations depict remarkably similar distributions across all stations with peaks in transition likelihood approximately 1–2 h after a preceding transition. At Cabauw in the Netherlands, very persistent wSBL and vSBL nights are usually accompanied by overcast conditions with strong geostrophic winds Ugeo or clear-sky conditions with weak Ugeo, respectively. In contrast, SBL regime transitions can neither be linked to magnitudes in Ugeo and cloud coverage nor to specific tendencies in Ugeo. However, regime transitions can be initiated by changes in low-level cloud cover.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCarsten Abraham and Adam H. Monahan are supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC).en_US
dc.identifier.citationAbraham, C., & Monahan, A. H. (2019). Climatological Features of the Weakly and Very Stably Stratified Nocturnal Boundary Layers. Part II: Regime Occupation and Transition Statistics and the Influence of External Drivers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76(11), 3485-3504. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-19-0078.1.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-19-0078.1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12380
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of the Atmospheric Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectNonlinear dynamics
dc.subjectBoundary layer
dc.subjectWind
dc.subjectClimate classification/regimes
dc.subjectStatistics
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Earth and Ocean Sciences
dc.titleClimatological Features of the Weakly and Very Stably Stratified Nocturnal Boundary Layers. Part II: Regime Occupation and Transition Statistics and the Influence of External Driversen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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