The Alaiz experiment: untangling multi-scale  stratified flows over complex terrain

Santos, Pedro; Mann, Jakob; Vasiljević, Nikola; Cantero, Elena; Sanz Rodrigo, Javier; Borbón, Fernando; Martínez-Villagrasa, Daniel; Martí, Belén; Cuxart, Joan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1793-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1793-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-5-1793-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 4

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23 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 23 Dec 2020

The Alaiz experiment: untangling multi-scale stratified flows over complex terrain

Pedro Santos, Jakob Mann, Nikola Vasiljević, Elena Cantero, Javier Sanz Rodrigo, Fernando Borbón, Daniel Martínez-Villagrasa, Belén Martí, and Joan Cuxart

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The Alaiz Experiment (ALEX17): wind field and turbulent fluxes in a large-scale and complex topography with synoptic forcing P. Santos, J. Mann, N. Vasiljevic, M. Courtney, J. Sanz Rodrigo, E. Cantero, F. Borbón, D. Martínez-Villagrasa, B. Martí, and J. Cuxart https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.c.4508597.v1

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This study presents results from the Alaiz experiment (ALEX17), featuring the characterization of two cases with flow features ranging from 0.1 to 10 km in complex terrain. We show that multiple scanning lidars can capture in detail a type of atmospheric wave that can happen up to 10 % of the time at this site. The results are in agreement with multiple ground observations and demonstrate the role of atmospheric stability in flow phenomena that need to be better captured by numerical models.