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SHEBA flux–profile relationships in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

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Measurements of atmospheric turbulence made during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean Experiment (SHEBA) are used to examine the profile stability functions of momentum, φ m , and sensible heat, φ h , in the stably stratified boundary layer over the Arctic pack ice. Turbulent fluxes and mean meteorological data that cover different surface conditions and a wide range of stability conditions were continuously measured and reported hourly at five levels on a 20-m main tower for 11 months. The comprehensive dataset collected during SHEBA allows studying φ m and φ h in detail and includes ample data for the very stable case. New parameterizations for φ m (ζ) and φ h (ζ) in stable conditions are proposed to describe the SHEBA data; these cover the entire range of the stability parameter ζ = z/L from neutral to very stable conditions, where L is the Obukhov length and z is the measurement height. In the limit of very strong stability, φ m follows a ζ 1/3 dependence, whereas φ h initially increases with increasing ζ, reaches a maximum at ζ ≈ 10, and then tends to level off with increasing ζ. The effects of self-correlation, which occur in plots of φ m and φ h versus ζ, are reduced by using an independent bin-averaging method instead of conventional averaging.

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    Present address: NorthWest Research Associates, Inc. (Bellevue Division), 25 Eagle Ridge, Lebanon, NH, 03766-1900, USA

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  1. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Andrey A. Grachev & P. Ola G. Persson

  2. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA

    Andrey A. Grachev, Christopher W. Fairall & P. Ola G. Persson

  3. U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, USA

    Edgar L Andreas

  4. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA

    Peter S. Guest

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Grachev, A.A., Andreas, E.L., Fairall, C.W. et al. SHEBA flux–profile relationships in the stable atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 124, 315–333 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-007-9177-6

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