Publications de Eric Richard Pardyjak

Adapting tilt corrections and the governing flow equations for steep, fully three-dimensional, mountainous terrain

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

In recent studies of atmospheric turbulent surface exchange in complex terrain, questions arise concerning velocity-sensor tilt corrections and the governing flow equations for coordinate systems aligned with steep slopes. The standard planar-fit method, a ...

2016

Buoyant Turbulent Kinetic Energy Production in Steep-Slope Katabatic Flow

Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

We develop several critical concepts that should be considered when interpreting, modelling and designing future experiments for flows over sloping terrain. Vertical buoyancy fluxes in katabatic flows can be positive and a source of turbulent kinetic energ ...

Springer Verlag2016

Momentum balance of katabatic flow on steep slopes covered with short vegetation

Marc Parlange, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Gabriel George Katul

Katabatic flows over alpine mountainous terrain differ from their forested or bare slope counterparts due to the presence of well-ventilated, short vegetation. The impact of a grass canopy and larger-scale pressure perturbations on the one-dimensional mean ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Flow during the evening transition over steep Alpine slopes

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Chad Higgins, Daniel Nadeau, Eric Richard Pardyjak

A field campaign, the Slope Experiment near La Fouly (SELF-2010), was conducted to monitor the evening transition of slope flows on clear-sky days from July to September 2010 in a narrow valley of the Swiss Alps. A steep west-facing slope with inclinations ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

A Raman lidar to measure water vapor in the atmospheric boundary layer

Hubert van den Bergh, Valentin Simeonov, Martin Froidevaux, Pablo Roberto Ristori, Marc Parlange, Ilya Serikov, Chad Higgins, Eric Richard Pardyjak

A new multi-telescope scanning Raman lidar designed to measure the water vapor mixing ratio in the atmospheric boundary layer for a complete diurnal cycle with high resolution spatial (1.25 m) and temporal (1 s) resolutions is presented. The high resolutio ...

Elsevier2013

Measured and Estimated Water Vapor Advection in the Atmospheric Surface Layer

Valentin Simeonov, Martin Froidevaux, Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Eric Richard Pardyjak

The flux of water vapor due to advection is measured using high-resolution Raman lidar that was orientated horizontally across a land-lake transition. At the same time, a full surface energy balance is performed to assess the impact of scalar advection on ...

American Meteorological Society2013

Similarity Scaling Over a Steep Alpine Slope

Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Daniel Nadeau, Eric Richard Pardyjak

In this study,we investigate the validity of similarity scaling over a steep mountain slope (30–41◦). The results are based on eddy-covariance data collected during the Slope Experiment near La Fouly (SELF-2010); a field campaign conducted in a narrow vall ...

Springer2013

A Simple Model for the Afternoon and Early Evening Decay of Convective Turbulence Over Different Land Surfaces

Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Daniel Nadeau, Eric Richard Pardyjak

A simple model to study the decay of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) in the convective surface layer is presented. In this model, the TKE is dependent upon two terms, the turbulent dissipation rate and the surface buoyancy fluctuations. The time evolution o ...

2011