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0000-0002-1468-5253
Current Organisation
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-09-2020
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 13-06-2018
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078292
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-11-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2021
DOI: 10.1002/QJ.4035
Abstract: Motivated by the abundance of low clouds in the subtropics, where the easterly trade winds prevail, we study the role of shallow convection in the momentum budget of the trades. To this end, we use ICON‐LEM hindcasts run over the North Atlantic for 12 days corresponding to the NARVAL1 (winter) and NARVAL2 (summer) flight c aigns. The simulation protocol consists of several nested domains, and we focus on the inner domains (≈100 × 100 km 2 ) which have been run at resolutions of 150–600 m and are forced by analysis data, thus exhibiting realistic conditions. Combined, the resolved advection and the subgrid stresses decelerate the easterly flow over a frictional layer that balances the prevailing geostrophic wind forcing. Irrespective of the horizontal resolution, this layer is about 2 km deep in the strong winter trades and 1 km in summer, as winds and geostrophic forcing weaken and cloudiness reduces. The unresolved processes are strongest near the surface and are well captured by traditional K‐diffusion theory, but convective‐scale motions which are not considered in K‐diffusion theory contribute the most in the upper part of the mixed layer and are strongest just below cloud base. The results point out that convection in the mixed layer – the roots of trade‐wind cumuli and subcloud‐layer circulations – play an important role in slowing down easterly flow below cloud base (but little in the cloud layer itself), which helps make the zonal wind jet more distinct. Most of the friction within the clouds and near the wind jet stems from smaller‐scale turbulence stresses.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-02-2020
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 27-04-2011
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046601
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 27-09-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1002/2017MS001125
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-02-2022
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 04-07-2022
DOI: 10.1029/2022JD036634
Abstract: In response to north‐south pressure gradients set by the annual march of the Sun, a cross‐equatorial flow that turns to become a low‐level Somali Jet at around 10°N is established in the lower troposphere over the Indian Ocean. This flow plays a fundamental role in the Indian monsoon. A mechanistic understanding of drivers of this flow is lacking. Here, we present a seasonal‐mean analysis of the kinetic energy (KE) budget of the low‐level flow using high spatiotemporal resolution ERA5 reanalysis to identify sources and sinks of KE. We find that the largest KE generation occurs around East African orography where the Somali Jet forms while significant KE is also generated over the Western Ghats and the Madagascar Island (“hot spots”). These regions are distant from core monsoon precipitation regions, suggesting that local circulations driven by condensation do not directly produce the bulk of KE during monsoons. A unique KE balance supports the generation of the Somali Jet, with KE generation balanced by nonlinear KE advection as it forms. Over oceans, KE generation occurs mainly due to cross‐isobaric meridional winds in the boundary layer (BL). In contrast, over the East African highlands and Western Ghats, KE generation maximizes just above the BL and mainly occurs due to the interaction of flow with orography. We propose a simple decomposition of lower tropospheric KE generation into contributions from surface pressure, orography, and free‐tropospheric gradients that corroborate the important role played by surface pressure gradients once adjusted for effects of orography.
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 06-2021
DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002352
Abstract: It is well known that subtropical shallow convection transports heat and water vapor upwards from the surface. It is less clear if it also transports horizontal momentum upwards to significantly affect the trade winds in which it is embedded. We utilize unique multiday large‐eddy simulations run over the tropical Atlantic with ICON‐LEM to investigate the character of shallow convective momentum transport (CMT). For a typical trade‐wind profile during boreal winter, CMT acts as an apparent friction to decelerate the north‐easterly flow. This effect maximizes below the cloud base while in the cloud layer, friction is very small, although present over a relatively deep layer. In the cloud layer, the zonal component of the momentum flux is counter‐gradient and penetrates deeper than reported in traditional shallow cumulus LES cases. The transport through conditionally s led convective updrafts and downdrafts explains a weak friction effect, but not the counter‐gradient flux near the cloud tops. The analysis of the momentum flux budget reveals that, in the cloud layer, the counter‐gradient flux is driven by convectively triggered nonhydrostatic pressure‐gradients and horizontal circulations surrounding the clouds. A model set‐up with large domain size and realistic boundary conditions is necessary to resolve these effects.
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 17-10-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-10-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-04-2021
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