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Calculating the turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer with neural networks

Leufen, L. H. 1,2; Schädler, G. 1,2
1 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung Troposphärenforschung (IMKTRO), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

The turbulent fluxes of momentum, heat and water vapour link the Earth's surface with the atmosphere. Therefore, the correct modelling of the flux interactions between these two systems with very different timescales is vital for climate and weather forecast models. Conventionally, these fluxes are modelled using Monin–Obukhov similarity theory (MOST) with stability functions derived from a small number of field experiments. This results in a range of formulations of these functions and thus also in differences in the flux calculations; furthermore, the underlying equations are non-linear and have to be solved iteratively at each time step of the model. In this study, we tried a different and more flexible approach, namely using an artificial neural network (ANN) to calculate the scaling quantities u* and θ* (used to parameterise the fluxes), thereby avoiding function fitting and iteration. The network was trained and validated with multi-year data sets from seven grassland, forest and wetland sites worldwide using the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton backpropagation algorithm and six-fold cross validation. Extensive sensitivity tests showed that an ANN with six input variables and one hidden layer gave results comparable to (and in some cases even slightly better than) the standard method; moreover, this ANN performed considerably better than a multivariate linear regression model. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000095809
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-2033-2019
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung Troposphärenforschung (IMKTRO)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2019
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1991-959X, 1991-9603
KITopen-ID: 1000095809
HGF-Programm 12.02.02 (POF III, LK 01) Vegetation climate- and land use system
Erschienen in Geoscientific model development
Verlag Copernicus Publications
Band 12
Heft 5
Seiten 2033-2047
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