{"id":513776,"date":"2018-08-26T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20180004109"},"modified":"2018-08-26T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T12:47:34","slug":"preliminary-evaluation-of-the-simplified-higher-order-closure-shoc-in-the-nasa-goddard-earth-observing-system-geos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=513776","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Evaluation of the Simplified Higher Order Closure (SHOC) in the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Here we evaluate alternative planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes in the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model. The model currently calculates turbulent diffusivities with a local Richardson number-based scheme for stable layers, and a K-profile scheme with surface- and cloud-driven plumes based on Lock et al. (2000) for unstable layers. In this study, these are replaced with the TKE-based Simplified Higher Order Closure (SHOC). SHOC combines a 1.5-order turbulence closure with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Here we evaluate alternative planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes in the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model. The model currently calculates turbulent diffusivities with a local Richardson number-based scheme for stable layers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513777,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513776\/revisions\/513777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}