Impact of terrain complexity on the turbulence drag coefficient: A case study from the Indian Himalayan region

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作者
Lohani, Priyanka [1 ]
Mukherjee, Sandipan [1 ]
机构
[1] GB Pant Natl Inst Himalayan Environm, Kosi Katarmal 263643, Almora, India
关键词
Drag coefficient; Himalayan terrain; Surface roughness; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SURFACE;
D O I
10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2021.101201
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
The aerodynamic drag coefficient (CD) is conjectured to change (or remains almost uniform) with the horizontal wind speed (U) over a flexible (or fixed) surface element, which is represented with the surface roughness (z(0)). This conjecture is tested for the near neutral atmospheric turbulence (i.e. when surface stability z/L is almost equal to 0, where z is the measurement height and L is Obukhov length) of monsoon and winter season at an on-slope and a ridge-top site in the Indian Himalaya, wherein the ridge-top site is associated with a higher degree of sensitivity to the roughness element and terrain attributes. This hypothesis is successfully verified for two conditions, (i) the monsoon period observations of ridge-top site are found to have higher z(0) due to vegetative growth than the winter period for flows having similar terrain signature, and (ii) the monsoon and winter period observations of on-slope site are noted to have similar z(0) for flows having signature of steep terrain. Subsequently, constants (i.e. a and b) of the power-law relationships between C-D and U (i.e. C-D = aU(b)), as a function of z(0), are optimized. It is noted that the relationship between C-D and U has higher sensitivity towards the terrain slope than the vegetative growth.
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