Estudo da organização da turbulência na interface floresta-atmosfera: análises de dados observacionais e simulação numérica
Were investigated the structure of turbulent flow above the Rebio-Jarú forest reserve, located in the state of Rondônia. For this, we used data measured in micrometeorological tower, collected during the wet season, in daytime and nighttime periods, and also performed numerical modeling using Large...
| Autor principal: | Dias Júnior, Cléo Quaresma |
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| Grau: | Tese |
| Idioma: | por |
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA
2020
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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/12945 http://lattes.cnpq.br/9857237626091379 |
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Were investigated the structure of turbulent flow above the Rebio-Jarú forest reserve, located in the state of Rondônia. For this, we used data measured in micrometeorological tower, collected during the wet season, in daytime and nighttime periods, and also performed numerical modeling using Large Eddy Simulation (LES).
For daytime conditions some aspects of the average vertical wind profile above and within the forest canopy were analyzed. It is used the hyperbolic tangent function satisfactorily in order to obtain a functional shape for the vertical wind profile above and inside the canopy, which took into account the variability of the height of the inflection point in the vertical wind profile and the leaf area index, too. Furthermore, we obtained a robust linear relationship between the varying height of the inflection point and the characteristic time scale associated with the coherent organization of existing structures immediately above the forest canopy.For the nocturnal boundary layer situations, three different turbulent regimes were analyzed: regime 1) weak turbulence and low wind speed; regime 2) strong turbulence and high wind speed and regime 3) non-stationary turbulent events. It was noted that in the nocturnal boundary layer the highest frequency of occurrence is related with the first regime (95%), compared to regimes 2 and 3 (5% each). However, for regime-2’s situations, it was observed that the sensible heat flux is about 40 times higher compared to situations in which the regime 1 is dominant. Besides, in situations where the regime 2 is predominant, it was observed that the height of the inflection point, the length-scale associated with the wind-shear, the coherent structures’ time scale, and the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy were significantly higher when compared to the respective values obtained in the regime 1, indicating the occurrence of strong turbulent mixing in the surface boundary layer in such situations. In addition, it was found that the episodes classified as regime 3 were essentially non-stationary.
In applying LES was added a drag force into the model, representative of the rainforest canopy, in order to obtain simulations closer to reality. Its main goal was to investigate the occurrence of coherent structures above the Amazon rainforest. The results showed that the turbulent flow was sensitive to the presence of the forest canopy, with a well-defined inflection point on the vertical wind profile just above the canopy. Furthermore, the profiles of momentum flux and turbulent kinetic energy were similar to those obtained with experimental data. In the region between 1h and 4h (where h is the average height of the forest canopy) the observed values of several physical variables such as pressure, momentum fluxes, skewnesses of the wind velocity components, and vorticity are suggesting that coherent structures are organized in form of rolls, with symmetry axis perpendicular to the mean flow. The results reinforce the importance of considering the physical role of the inflection point on the vertical wind speed profile in the turbulent exchanges between forest and atmosphere. |