BOMEX

Purpose

With this example trade wind cumulus convection under steady-state conditions can be studied.

Description

The setup is based on the ​GCSS LES intercomparison case ​BOMEX ([ Siebesma et al. (2003)]). It describes shallow cumulus convection in the trade wind region over the ocean. During the simulation cumulus clouds form. The cloud cover is about 0.2. Results from BOMEX simulations with PALM were published in Heinze et al. (2012) and Riechelmann et al (2012).

References

• Heinze, R., S. Raasch and D. Mironov, 2012: Budgets of scalar fluxes for cloudy boundary layers
  20th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Boston, MA, USA (talk) ​extended abstract
  
  
• Riechelmann, T., Y. Noh and S. Raasch, 2012: A new method for large-eddy simulations of clouds with Lagrangian droplets including the effects of turbulent collision. New J. Phys., 14, 065008, doi:​10.1088/1367-2630/14/6/065008