atmospheric convection

[ypsilon]

For educational purposes, I am trying to build a 2D thermal convection model on atmospheric scale. The basis is a standard rayleigh-benard convection with prandtl/rayleigh numbers set accordingly. However there are other effects to be taken into consideration

a) pressure and temperature gradient in the airmass before convection starts
b) changing radiation influx during the “day”
c) humidity, and effects of water vapour in the air mass
d) horizontal movement of the air mass

Did anybody do something similar before? Any pointers where to start from?
Thanks in advance

Andreas

[mgaedtke]

Hi Andreas,

I’m not an expert in weather or atmospheric modeling, but I find the overview in https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/207513141.pdf very comprehensive. See in the references therein for example the work of Hess et al. (https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/3/415/2010/gmd-3-415-2010.pdf), where a weather model based on LES is proposed.

Cheers,
Max

[ypsilon]

Thanks alot!
Very interesting articles, indeed.

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