High-resolution numerical simulation of turbulent flows and dry deposition in mountainous forest

Nakayama, Hiromasa   ; Katata, Genki*

Dry deposition is important process of chemical material input of gaseous and particulate forms from the atmosphere into the terrestrial ecosystem near the ground surface in the planetary boundary layer. It is difficult to accurately estimate dry deposition amounts for such areas. First, we incorporate our particle dry deposition scheme into the loca-scale high-resolution atmospheric dispersion model and perform test simulations in comparison to indoor experiments. Next, we apply to the hilly-terrain forest in a field-site to analyze the impact of topography and forest structure to dry deposition. It is found that the model successfully simulated the maximum values at the edge of the forest and exponential decrease with a downwind distance from the edge as well as the experiments. Furthermore, for the field-site, the distribution of dry deposition shows a peak at the forest edge, rapidly decreases with a downwind distance from the edge. Although the local decrease is observed at the forest gap, that shows nearly constant within the canopy.