Application of Bulk Richardson Parameterizations of Surface Fluxes to Heterogeneous Land Surfaces
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Buban, Michael
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Toward the Development of New Parameterizations for Surface Fluxes
For more than 50 years Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST) has been used to represent near-surface exchanges of heat, moisture, and momentum in NWP models. However, limitations of MOST are well-known. In brief, MOST assumes a homogenous near-surface flux layer, which is oftentimes not valid, and suffers from autocorrelation. Limitations such as these motivate the need to modify the functional forms of the similarity equations used to represent fluxes in NWP models.
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