Articles | Volume 26, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-401-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-401-2019
Research article
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15 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 15 Nov 2019

A prototype stochastic parameterization of regime behaviour in the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer

Carsten Abraham, Amber M. Holdsworth, and Adam H. Monahan

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Cited articles

Abraham, C. and Monahan, A. H.: Climatological Features of the Weakly and Very Stably Stratified Nocturnal Boundary Layers, Part I: State Variables Containing Information about Regime Occupation, J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 3455–3484, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0261.1, 2019a. a
Abraham, C. and Monahan, A. H.: 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, J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 3485–3504, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-19-0078.1, 2019b. a
Abraham, C. and Monahan, A. H.: Climatological Features of the Weakly and Very Stably Stratified Nocturnal Boundary Layers, Part III: The Structure of Meteorological State Variables in Persistent Regime Nights and across Regime Transitions, J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 3505–3527, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0274.1, 2019c. a
Abraham, C., Holdsworth, A. M., and Monahan, A. H.: Replication Data for: A prototype stochastic parameterization of regime behaviour in the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer, https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/ZUENCK, Scholars Portal Dataverse, 2019. 
Acevedo, O. C. and Fitzjarrald, D. R.: In the Core of the Night-Effects of Intermittent Mixing on a Horizontally Heterogeneous Surface, Bound-Lay. Meteorol., 106, 1–33, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020824109575, 2003. a
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Atmospheric stably stratified boundary layers display transitions between regimes of sustained and intermittent turbulence. These transitions are not well represented in numerical weather prediction and climate models. A prototype explicitly stochastic turbulence parameterization simulating regime dynamics is presented and tested in an idealized model. Results demonstrate that the approach can improve the regime representation in models.