Simulation results with the EULAG research model for the publication: "Large eddy simulations of the interaction between the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and degrading Arctic permafrost"

Description

Technical info

Naming convention

• XXXX - domain length in zonal direction
• YYYY - domain length in meridional direction
• NNN - number of grid cells in zonal direction
• MMM - number of grid cells in meridional direction
• QQQ - lake areal fraction in %
• LLLL - surface correlation length

flowfield_XXXXmxYYYYm_NNNxMMM_QQQ_LLLLm.nc

contains 

• zonal wind speed u [m/s]
• meridional wind speed v [m/s]
• vertical wind speed w [m/s]
• potential temperature th [K]

after 12 h simulation period.

land_cover_IDs_XXXXmxYYYYm_NNNxMMM_QQQ_LLLLm.dat

contains the land cover classes grass represented as 0 and lake represented as 1 mapped onto each grid point.

turbs_XXXXmxYYYYm_NNNxMMM_QQQ_LLLLm.nc

contains temporally averaged fields with averaging period of 1 h

• mean zonal wind speed umean [m/s]
• mean meridional wind speed vmean [m/s]
• mean vertical wind speed wmean [m/s]
• mean potential temperature thmean [K]

turbf_XXXXmxYYYYm_NNNxMMM_QQQ_LLLLm.nc

contains turbulent vertical  fluxes

• mean vertical flux of zonal momentum uwmean [m2/s2]
• mean vertical flux of meridional momentum vwmean [m2/s2]
• mean vertical kinematic heat flux  wthmean [Km/s]