Comments on 'The Effects of Mesoscale Surface Heterogeneity on the Fair-Weather Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer' Reply

摘要

We welcome the comments by Dr. Christopher P.Weaver concerning our paper (Kang and Davis 2008,hereafter KD08). Weaver (2009, hereafter W09) mainly posed two issues: (i) KD08 wrongly cited Weaver (2004, hereafter W04) and Weaver and Avissar (2001, hereafter WA01) as past mesoscale modeling studies that used idealized surface flux conditions and (ii) KD08’s result of insignificant vertical mesoscale flux is applicable only to temperature flux, not to moisture flux. The core issue at debate is whether or not heterogeneity in land surface thermodynamic fluxes leads to large vertical mesoscale moisture fluxes in the convective boundary layer (CBL).