Modelling of Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers with Varying Stratifications

This repository contains data that was used for publishing article called Modelling of Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers with Varying Stratifications. The repository compliments the publication in the sense that it provides qualitative insight for comparison and exploration.

Keywords: GABLS1, Open data, Stably-stratified turbulence, Turbulence parametrization

The data is stored inside sixteen files. The file names are split into a part that describes variables and part that describes simulation. Here's an example of a file name:

budgets.cr0375.csv

The first part budgets refers to variables inside the file and the second part cr0375 refers to forcing conditions (in this example cooling rate of 0.375 Kelvin per hour) used in the simulation.

Variables:

mean wind speed and mean potential temperature (first_order_stat)

variance and covariance variables that describe turbulence properties (second_order_stat)

variables in the turbulent kinetic energy and half the temperature variance equations (budgets)

contain values for model coefficients that can be used for calculating second order statistics (lambda_beta_coeffs)

Simulations:

cooling rate at the surface 0.25 Kelvin per hour (cr025)

cooling rate at the surface 0.375 Kelvin per hour (cr0375)

cooling rate at the surface 0.5 Kelvin per hour (cr05)

cooling rate at the surface 1.0 Kelvin per hour (cr1)

Note: The results presented in the repository are taken after the ninth hour of the simulation while the results in the published paper is averaged between the eight and ninth hour. This difference should be negligible.