Previously, the authors have studied a hierarchy of turbulent boundary layer models, all based on the same closure assumptions for the triple turbulence moments. The models differ in complexity by virtue of a systematic process of neglecting certain of the tendency and diffusion terms in the dynamic equations for the turbulent moments. Based on this work a Level 3 model was selected as one which apparently sacrificed little predictive accuracy, but which afforded considerable numerical simplification relative to the more complex Level 4 model. In this paper, simulations from the Level 3 model are compared with two days of Wangara atmospheric boundary layer data. In this comparison, there is an easily identified error introduced by the inability to include advection of momentum in the calculation. Otherwise, the calculated results and the observational data appear to be in close agreement.
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Yamada, T., & Mellor, G. (1975). SIMULATION OF THE WANGARA ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER DATA. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 32(12), 2309–2329. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1975)032<2309:ASOTWA>2.0.CO;2
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