Continuity and momentum equations for moist atmospheres

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/23/1/019201

Abstract The moist atmosphere with occurring precipitation is considered to be a multiphase fluid composed of dry air, water vapor and hydrometeors. These compositions move with different velocities: they take a macroscopic motion with a reference velocity and a relative motion with a velocity deviated from the reference velocity. The reference velocity can be chosen as the velocities of dry air, a gas mixture and the total air mixture. The budget equations of continuity and momentum are formulated in the three reference-velocity frames. It is shown that the resulting equations are dependent on the chosen reference velocity. The diffusive flux due to compositions moving with velocities deviated from the reference velocity and the internal sources due to the phase transitions of water substances result in additional source terms in continuity and momentum equations. A continuity equation of the total mass is conserved and free of diffusive flux divergence if the reference velocity is referred to the velocity of the total air mixture. However, continuity equations in the dry-air and gas-mixture frames are not conserved due to the mass diffusive flux divergence. The diffusive flux introduces additional source terms in the momentum equation. In the dry-air frame, the diffusive flux of water substances and the phase transitions of water substances contribute to the change of the total momentum. The additional sources of total momentum in the frame of a gas mixture are associated with the diffusive flux of hydrometeors, the phase transitions of hydrometeors and the gas-mixture diffusive flux. In the frame of total air mixture, the contribution to the total momentum comes from the diffusive flux of all atmospheric compositions instead of the phase transitions. The continuity and momentum equations derived here are more complicated than the traditional model equations. With increasing computing power, it becomes possible to simulate atmospheric processes with these sophisticated equations. It is helpful to the improvement of precipitation forecast.

Keywords: diffusive flux phase transition reference velocity

Received: 02 February 2013
Revised: 03 June 2013
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PACS:	92.60.N-	(Cloud physics and chemistry)
	92.60.Nv	(Cloud physics and chemistry)
	92.60.hk	(Convection, turbulence, and diffusion)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2009CB421505), the Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZZD-EW-05), the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41175060, 40930950, and 41005005), the Project of CAMS, China (Grant No. 2011LASW-B15), and the Spectial Scientific Research Fund of Meteorological Public Welfare of Ministry of Sciences and Technology, China (Grant No. GYHY200906004).

Corresponding Authors: Ran Ling-Kun
E-mail: rlk@mail.iap.ac.cn

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Ran Ling-Kun (冉令坤), Gao Shou-Ting (高守亭), Cao Jie (曹洁) Continuity and momentum equations for moist atmospheres 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 019201

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