The Large Eddy Simulation (LES)

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Algorithmic descriptions:

Sullivan, P. P. & E. G. Patton, 2008: A highly parallel algorithm for turbulence simulations in planetary boundary layers: Results with meshes up to 1024³. 18th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence, Stockholm, Sweden.

Moeng, C-H. and P.P. Sullivan, 2002: Large Eddy Simulation. In: Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, 1140-1150.

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, and C.-H. Moeng, 1996: A grid nesting method for large-eddy simulation of planetary boundary layer flows. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 80, 167-202.

Moeng, C-H., and Wyngaard, J.C. 1988: Spectral Analysis of Large-Eddy Simulations of the Convective Boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 3573-3587.

Moeng, C-H, 1984: A Large-Eddy Simulation Model for the Study of Planetary Boundary-Layer turbulence. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 2052-2062.

Clear PBLs:

Sullivan, P. P. & J. C. McWilliams, 2010: Dynamics of winds and currents coupled to surface waves. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 42, 19-42.

Sullivan, P. P., J. B. Edson, T. Hristov, & J. C. McWilliams, 2008: Large eddy simulations and observations of atmospheric marine boundary layers above non-equilibrium surface waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 1225-1245.

Beare, R. J., M. K. Macvean, A. A. M. Holtslag, J. Cuxart, I. Esau, J-C. Golaz, M. A. Jimenez, M. Khairoutdinov, B. Kosovic, D. Lewellen, T. S. Lund, J. K. Lundquist, A. Mccabe, A. F. Moene, Y. Noh, S. Raasch & P. P. Sullivan, 2006: An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 118, 242-272.

Moeng, C.-H., J.C. McWilliams, R. Rotunno, P.P. Sullivan & J.C. Weil, 2003: Investigating 2D modeling of atmospheric convection in the PBL. J. Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 889--903.

Saiki, E. M., C-H. Moeng, and P. P. Sullivan, 2000: Large eddy simulation of the stably stratified planetary boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 95, 1-30.

Sullivan, P. P., C.-H. Moeng, B. Stevens, D. H. Lenschow, and S. D. Mayor, 1998: Structure of the entrainment zone capping the convective atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 3042-3064.

Lin, C.-L., J.C. McWilliams, C.-H. Moeng, and P. P. Sullivan, 1996: Coherent structures and dynamics in a neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer flow. Physics of Fluids, 8, 2626-2639.

Ayotte, K. W., P. P. Sullivan, A. Andren, S. C. Doney, A. Holtslag, W. G. Large, J. C. McWilliams, C.-H. Moeng, M. Otte, J. Tribbia, J. C. Wyngaard, 1996: An evaluation of neutral and convective planetary boundary layer parameterizations relative to large eddy simulation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 79, 131-175.

Moeng, C.-H., and P. P. Sullivan, 1994: A comparison of shear and buoyancy driven planetary-boundary-layer flows. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51,999-1022.

Nieuwstadt, F.T.M., Mason, P.J., Moeng, C-H. and Schumann, U. 1991: Large-Eddy Simulation of the Convective Boundary layer: A Comparison of Four Computer Codes. 8th Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Springer-Verlag.

Cloudy PBLs:

Moeng, C-H., B. Stevens, & P.P. Sullivan, 2004: Large-eddy simulation of cloud-topped mixed layers. In Atmospheric Turbulence and Mesoscale Meteorology, Eds. E. Federovich, R. Rotunno, & B. Stevens, Cambridge University Press.

Moeng, C.-H., P. P. Sullivan, and B. Stevens, 1999: Including radiative effects in an entrainment-rate formula for buoyancy-driven PBLs. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 1031--1049.

Moeng, C.-H., W. R. Cotton, C. Bretherton, A. Chlond, M. Khairoutdinov, S. Krueger, W. S. Lewellen, M. K. MacVean, J.R.M. Pasquier, H. A. Rand, A. P. Siebesma, R. I. Sykes, B. Stevens, 1996: Simulation of a stratocumulus-topped PBL: Intercomparison among different numerical codes. Bulletin of the Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 261--278.

Randall, D. A., Q. Shao, and C.-H. Moeng, 1992: A second-order bulk boundary-layer model.Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 49, 1903--1923.

Moeng, C.-H., S. Shen, and D. A. Randall, 1992: Physical processes within the nocturnal stratus-topped boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 49, 2384--2401.

Schumann, U., and C.-H. Moeng, 1991: Plume fluxes in clear and cloudy convective boundary layers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 48, 1746--1757.

Schumann, U., and C.-H. Moeng, 1991: Plume budgets in clear and cloudy convective boundary layers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 48, 1758--1770.

Moeng, C.-H., and U. Schumann, 1991: Composite structure of plumes in stratus-topped boundary layers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 48, 2280--2291.

Moeng, C.-H., 1987: Large-eddy simulation of a stratus-topped boundary layer. Part II: Implications for mixed-layer modeling. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 44, 1605-1614.

Moeng, C.-H., 1986: Large-eddy simulation of a stratus-topped boundary layer. Part I: Structure and budgets. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 43, 2886-2900.

Land-surface interactions, Canopies, Chemistry and Dispersion in the PBL:

Weil, J.C., P.P. Sullivan & C-H. Moeng, 2004: On the use of large-eddy simulations in lagrangian particle dispersion models. J. Atmospheric Sciences, accepted.

Patton, E.G., P.P. Sullivan, & C-H. Moeng, 2003: Influence of idealized heterogeneity on wet and dry planetary boundary layers coupled to the land surface. I: Instantaneous fields and statistics. J. Atmospheric Sciences, submitted.

Patton, E.G, P.P. Sullivan, and K.J. Davis, 2003: The influence of a forest canopy on top-down and bottom-up diffusion in the planetary boundary layer. Q.J. Royal Meteorological Society, 129,1415-1434.

Patton, E.G., K.J. Davis, M.C. Barth, & P.P. Sullivan, 2001: Decaying scalars emitted by a forest canopy: A numerical study. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 100, 91-129.

Subgrid-scale Investigations:

Chen, Q., M.J. Otte, P.P. Sullivan, & C. Tong, 2009: A posteriori subgrid-scale model tests based on the conditional means of subgrid-scale stress and its production rate. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 626, 149-181.

Sullivan, P.P, T.W. Horst, D.H. Lenschow, C-H. Moeng, & J.C. Weil, 2003: Structure of subfilter-scale fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer with application to large-eddy simulation modeling. J. Fluid Mech., 482, 101-139.

Horst, T.W., J. Kleissl, D.H. Lenschow, C. Meneveau, C-H. Moeng, M.B. Parlange, P.P. Sullivan, & J.C. Weil, 2003: HATS: Field observations to obtain spatially-filtered turbulence fields from crosswind arrays of sonic anemometers in the atmospheric surface layer. J. Atmos. Sci., accepted.

Dubrulle, B., J-P. Laval, P.P. Sullivan, & J. Werne, 2002: A new dynamical subgrid model for the planetary surface layer. I. The model and a priori tests. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 861-876.

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, and C.-H. Moeng, 1994: A subgrid-scale model for large-eddy simulation of planetary boundary-layer flows. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 71, 247-276.

Ocean boundary layers:

Sullivan, P. P., J. C. McWilliams, & W. K. Melville, 2007: Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: Large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 593, 405-452.

Sullivan, P.P., J.C. McWilliams, W.K. Melville, 2005: Surface waves and ocean mixing: Insights from numerical simulations with stochastic surface forcing. 14th \'\,Aha Huliko\'\,a Hawaiian Winter Workshop on Rogue Waves pp 147-155.

Sullivan, P.P., J.C. McWilliams, & W.K. Melville, 2004: The oceanic boundary layer driven by wave breaking with stochastic variability. I: Direct numerical simulations. J. Fluid Mechanics, 507, 143-174.

McWilliams, J.C. and P.P. Sullivan, 2001: Surface-wave effects on marine boundary layers. In: Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches, J. Lumley, ed., Springer-Verlag, pp 412.

McWilliams, J.C. and P.P. Sullivan, 2000: Vertical mixing by Langmuir circulations. Spill Science and Technology Bulletin, 6, 225-237.

McWilliams, J.C., C-H. Moeng, and P. P. Sullivan, 1999: Turbulent fluxes and coherent structures in marine boundary layers: Investigations by large-eddy simulation. In: Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry, Dynamics, and Statistics, G. Geernaert, ed., Kluwer Publishers.

McWilliams, J. C., P. P. Sullivan, and C.-H. Moeng, 1997: Langmuir turbulence in the ocean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 334, 1-30.

McWilliams, J. C., P. C. Gallacher, C-H. Moeng and J. C. Wyngaard, 1993: Modeling the oceanic planetary boundary layer. In Large-Eddy Simulations of Complex Engineering and Geophysical Flows, Eds. B. Galperin and S. A. Orszag, Cambridge University Press, 441-454.