Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The role of turblence in determining the structures of fronts and associated small-scale disturbances was examined through a series of Large-Eddy-Simulations (LES). The structures of fronts were determined not physically, but by the choice of numerical parameters such as the model grid size in previous mesoscale model simulations. The LES simulations conducted in this study reproduced the frontal structure in a physically significant manner, by explicitly resolving small-scale turbulence associated with the front. The physical properties of the fronts and associated small-scale disturbances, and their dependencies on the representation of turbulence and the external forcings such as the frontogenetic forcing as well, were examined systematically using the LES.
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