Study On Development And Application Of A Regional Pbl Numerical Model

A regional scale (a few km to a few hundred km, minutes to days)planetary boundary layer (PBL) numerical model (RPBLM) has been successfully developed to simulateprecisely the boundary-layer three-dimensional characteristics. The RPBLM model with a high-resolutionnon-hydrostatic E - ∈ turbulence closure scheme has been applied to diagnose and prognosticate the PBL characteristicsover a complex underlying surface in the Hong Kong area of 60 km × 48 km. It is shown that the RPBLMmodel can be used to simulate the PBL characteristics including wind, temperature, water vapour andturbulence over such a complex underlying surface and that the simulated result is reasonably in agreementwith observations.