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Model Pressure Reduction

Model Pressure Reduction. Lots of issues to worry about. Shuell Pressure Reduction Used by Most Models. No time averaging of the surface temperature is employed. 

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Model Pressure Reduction

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  1. Model Pressure Reduction Lots of issues to worry about

  2. Shuell Pressure Reduction Used by Most Models • No time averaging of the surface temperature is employed.  • In order to calculate the mean temperature, the model "surface" temperature, and the standard atmosphere lapse rate (6.5 C / 1000m) are used

  3. At Night During Warm Season: phony troughs under terrain during night

  4. Why? • Models usually use the U.S. Standard Atmosphere for pressure reduction (Shuell Method). • During night the atmosphere can become more stable than U.S. Standard Atmosphere at low levels. • Thus, starting with the same temperature at crest level, the low level air is colder over the lowlands than within mountains, where no reduction is occurring, producing lower pressure.

  5. During the day, phony trough inland at low elevations Fig. 5. Composites of sea level pressure (solid lines, hPa) and 1000-hPa temperature (color shading, °C) using the (left) Shuell and (right) Mesinger methods for JJA at 0000 UTC.

  6. Why? • During day, the atmosphere over the central valley is near dry adiabatic (9.8 C per km), while over the mountains we assume U.S. Standard atmosphere valley (6.5C per km). • Becomes cooler at low levels inside the mountains…thus higher pressure.

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