Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Journal: Theoretical and Applied Climatology

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Theor. appl. climatol.

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Springer

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0177-798X
1434-4483

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Covariation of the Mid-Tropospheric Flow and the Sea Surface Temperature of the North Atlantic: A Statistical Analysis
Bresch, David N.; Davies, Huw C. (2000)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Influence of low ozone episodes on erythemal UV-B radiation in Austria
Schwarz, Matthias; Baumgartner, Dietmar J.; Pietsch, Helga; et al. (2018)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Enhanced temperature variability in high-altitude climate change
Ohmura, Atsumu (2012)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Greenhouse effect and altitude gradients over the Alps
Philipona, R.; Dürr, B.; Marty, C. (2004)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Can we replace observed forcing with weather generator in land surface modeling? Insights from long-term simulations at two contrasting boreal sites
Alves, Marco; Nadeau, Daniel F.; Music, Biljana; et al. (2021)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
This study evaluates the simulation of water balance components at half-hourly time steps from the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) when driven by a 500-year stochastic meteorological data set produced by the Advanced WEather GENerator (AWE-GEN) at two boreal sites with contrasting water availability. The CLASS was driven by ERA5 reanalysis data (CLASS-CTL) over 39 years and its output was used as a surrogate for land surface observations. At both sites, the mean monthly and annual values of all meteorological variables used to drive CLASS, including precipitation, are well captured by AWE-GEN, but their variability is, sometimes, biased. In general, CLASS driven by stochastic data (CLASS-WG) tends to produce higher evapotranspiration compared to values simulated by CLASS-CTL, especially during spring and summer at the wet site. The interannual evapotranspiration-precipitation and runoff-precipitation relationships derived from CLASS-WG and those derived from CLASS-CTL were very similar to each other at the dry site; they both indicate that evapotranspiration and runoff are limited by water availability. At the wet site, however, CLASS-WG only captured well the interannual runoff-precipitation relationship. The sensitivity analysis shows that CLASS water fluxes are particularly affected by the replacement of physically consistent input time series of incoming short-wave radiation, precipitation, temperature, and specific humidity. In conclusion, the results show that even though a weather generator can produce coherent climate time series, the use of this synthetic data as meteorological forcing in a physically based land surface model does not necessarily reproduce the complex surface processes, such as the surface water fluxes. More studies are encouraged to further analyze the constraints of this framework.
Intensity, frequency and spatial configuration of winter temperature inversions in the closed La Brevine valley, Switzerland
Vitasse, Yann; Klein, Geoffrey; Kirchner, James W.; et al. (2017)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Use of remotely sensed land use classification for a better evaluation of micrometeorological flux measurement sites
Reithmaier, L.M.; Göckede, M.; Markannen, T.; et al. (2006)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Modeling diurnal to seasonal water and heat exchanges at European Fluxnet sites
Stöckli, R.; Vidale, Pier Luigi (2005)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Temporal dynamics of CO2 fluxes and profiles over a central European city
Vogt, R.; Christen, A.; Rotach, M.W.; et al. (2006)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Special characteristics of the temperature structure near the surface
Sodemann, Harald; Foken, Thomas (2005)
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Detailed analyses of air temperature profiles measured over the Antarctic shelf ice revealed the frequent presence of an inversion layer in the lower 2 m above ground. The regular character of the phenomenon allowed for an in-depth description of its diurnal evolution and long-term behavior. From additional high-resolution temperature profile measurements it was observed that the inversion layer leads to a decoupling of the surface layer heat fluxes from the radiative surface temperature. It is demonstrated that bulk parameterizations are not able to provide valid predictions of turbulent heat fluxes under such conditions. A model with a three-layer temperature profile is shown to give useful estimates for the aerodynamic temperature, even in the presence of an inversion layer near the surface. This indicates a possible approach to address the limitations of current bulk parameterizations for heat fluxes in high latitudes.

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