Abstract

This paper documents a windshear case for an airport in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and explores, for the first time, the capability for high-resolution numerical weather simulation of the wind shear features. The windshear appears to be associated with pulses of the wind speed in a low-level easterly jet. The features are basically reproduced quite well with the high-resolution numerical model, though some discrepancies are identified, such as the maximum wind speed of the easterly jet and the magnitude of the eddy dissipation rate as compared with the actual Doppler LIDAR observations. Statistical analysis has been performed between the observation and the simulation results. The sensitivity of the modeling result to the choice of turbulence parameterization scheme has also been studied. The study result shows that it is possible to forecast the windshear feature using a high-resolution numerical weather prediction model for an airport in the complex terrain of the Plateau.

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