The variance of surface temperature due to diurnal and cyclone-scale forcing

Barry Saltzman; Steven Ashe

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v28i4.10298

The variance of surface temperature due to diurnal and cyclone-scale forcing

Tellus

Volume 28 (1976): Issue 4

By: Barry Saltzman and Steven Ashe

Open Access

|Jan 1976

Abstract

Formulas are developed expressing the diurnal and “synoptic” variance of surface temperature as functions of the climatological mean atmospheric state and the intrinsic properties of the earth's surface. Included in the development is a simplified parameterization of the vertical sensible heat flux due to small scale convection, and a parameterization of the mean water vapor distribution which enters in the representation of the long-wave radiative flux. The formulas are applied to northern hemisphere conditions in January and July, and are shown to yield reasonable distributions of these variances.

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