Sensitivity of the boundary layer energy fluxes to forcing parameters in a simple climate model

M. Sankar Rao; G. Dalu; R. C. Lo

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v34i4.10819

Sensitivity of the boundary layer energy fluxes to forcing parameters in a simple climate model

Tellus

Volume 34 (1982): Issue 4

By: M. Sankar Rao, G. Dalu and R. C. Lo

Open Access

|Jan 1982

Abstract

Winter and summer surface temperatures and time-averaged boundary layer energy fluxes are calculated by utilizing the Saltzman-Ashe parameterization for boundary layer fluxes in a two-level static model. The results are found to agree with observed patterns. Within the framework of this simple model, sensitivity analyses of the time-averaged boundary layer energy fluxes are conducted. Based on these results some of the forcing parameters (such as the subsurface temperature, cloud cover, surface albedo etc.) are arranged in a hierarchical order of importance. A generalized method of sensitivity analysis is also suggested.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v34i4.10819 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 321 - 333

Submitted on: Jul 21, 1980

Accepted on: Nov 23, 1981

Published on: Jan 1, 1982

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1982 M. Sankar Rao, G. Dalu, R. C. Lo, published by Stockholm University Press
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Volume 34 (1982): Issue 4