Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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International Session (Oral)

Symbol P (Space and Planetary Sciences) » P-PS Planetary Sciences

[P-PS02] Mars

Mon. May 23, 2016 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 104 (1F)

Convener:*Takehiko Satoh(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Masaki Ishiwatari(Department of Cosmosciences, Graduate school of Science, Hokkaido University), Sho Sasaki(Department of Earth and Space Sciences, School of Science, Osaka University), Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi(Graduate School of Science, Kobe University), Ayako Matsuoka(Research Division for Space Plasma, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Hideaki Miyamoto(The University Museum, The University of Tokyo), Sushil Atreya(University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Chair:Hideaki Miyamoto(The University Museum, The University of Tokyo)

4:20 PM - 4:45 PM

[PPS02-09] High resolution Large eddy simulation on Martian planetary boundary layer

★Invited papers

*Seiya Nishizawa1, Masatsugu Odaka2, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi3, Ko-ichiro SUGIYAMA4, Kensuke Nakajima5, Masaki Ishiwatari2, Shin-ichi Takehiro6, Hisashi Yashiro1, Hirofumi Tomita1, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi3 (1.RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, 2.Hokkaido Univ., 3.Kobe Univ., 4.ISAS, 5.Kyushu Univ., 6.Kyoto Univ.)

Keywords:Martian Planetary Boundary Layer

A large-eddy simulation (LES) on Martian planetary boundary layer has been performed to examine structure and characteristics of turbulence in the layer and their dependency on experimental resolution. SCALE-LES, which is an LES model for large domain and high resolution experiments developed in RIKEN AICS (http://scale.aics.riken.jp/), is used in this study. Spatial resolution is swept from 100m to 5m. Domain size is about 20km in horizontal and vertical. Horizontal boundary condition is double periodic condition. Heating rate calculated by an offline one-dimensional experiment (Odaka et al. 2001) is used instead of explicit calculation of the radiative transform process.
Well-known features of the boundary layer, such as hexagonal structure of convective cells and the -5/3 energy spectrum, are reasonably simulated. Dependency of several physical quantities at 14:00-15:00 local time, when the boundary layer is almost mature, on the resolution is analyzed. We found that vertical heat flux and variance of vertical velocity of resolved component show convergence or systematic tendency with the resolution. Convective vortices are developed and most of them are located near the upward reasion.