Insights into the Challenges of Modeling the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

• Main Author: Tastula, Esa-Matti
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2015
• Subjects: stable stratification; reanalysis; shallow convection; WRF; QNSE; EDMF; Meteorology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell; Deacon; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/5782; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/etd/article/6980/viewcontent/Tastula_usf_0206D_12972.pdf

This work approaches the topic of modeling the atmospheric boundary layer in four research projects, which are summarized below. i) The diurnal cycles of near-surface meteorological parameters over Antarctic sea ice in six widely used atmospheric reanalyses were validated against observations from I...