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气溶胶在分层大气中的湍流扩散和湍流热扩散

Turbulent Diffusion and Turbulent Thermal Diffusion of Aerosols in Stratified Atmospheric Flows

M. Sofiev, V. Sofieva, T. Elperin, N. Kleeorin, I. Rogachevskii, S. S. Zilitinkevich

摘要:

本文分析了地球大气中的湍流热扩散现象,它与湍流扩散的关系及其对气溶胶分布的潜在影响。这一现象早在10多年前就被理论预测,最近在实验室实验中被发现。这种效应导致气溶胶在热通量方向上的非扩散通量,并导致在逆温附近形成长寿气溶胶层。我们证明了湍流热扩散理论解释了对流层顶附近的GOMOS气溶胶观测(即,观测到的浓度升高的气溶胶垂直分布的形状相对于温度分布几乎对称)。结合湍流热扩散比对湍流扩散的依赖性的导出的表达式,这些测量产生一个独立的方法来确定对流层顶的湍流扩散系数。我们评估了湍流热扩散的影响,对流层低层垂直廓线的气溶胶浓度的数值色散模拟的装置,并发现一个规则的向上强迫气溶胶粗颗粒的影响强于细气溶胶。

英文摘要:

The paper analyzes the phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion in the Earth atmosphere, its relation to the turbulent diffusion and its potential impact on aerosol distribution. This phenomenon was predicted theoretically more than 10 years ago and detected recently in the laboratory experiments. This effect causes a non-diffusive flux of aerosols in the direction of the heat flux and results in formation of long-living aerosol layers in the vicinity of temperature inversions. We demonstrated that the theory of turbulent thermal diffusion explains the GOMOS aerosol observations near the tropopause (i.e., the observed shape of aerosol vertical profiles with elevated concentrations located almost symmetrically with respect to temperature profile). In combination with the derived expression for the dependence of the turbulent thermal diffusion ratio on the turbulent diffusion, these measurements yield an independent method for determining the coefficient of turbulent diffusion at the tropopause. We evaluated the impact of turbulent thermal diffusion to the lower-troposphere vertical profiles of aerosol concentration by means of numerical dispersion modelling, and found a regular upward forcing of aerosols with coarse particles affected stronger than fine aerosols.

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