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Numerical simulation of stably stratified turbulent flows over an urban surface: Spectra and scales and parameterization of temperature and wind-velocity profiles

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Stably stratified turbulent flows over surfaces with explicit roughness elements have been calculated using an LES model. The results of calculations for different height distributions of external dynamic forcing are compared and discussed. The spatial spectra and cospectra of turbulent wind-velocity fluctuations have been calculated and different methods of normalizing them have been studied. A parameterization allowing mean wind-velocity and temperature profiles to be approximated has been proposed for turbulence scale.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Glazunov, 2014, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2014, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 406–419.

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Glazunov, A.V. Numerical simulation of stably stratified turbulent flows over an urban surface: Spectra and scales and parameterization of temperature and wind-velocity profiles. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 50, 356–368 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433814040148

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