Investigating Vertical Profile of Horizontal Wind and Energy Transport Mechanism between Planetary Boundary Layer and Cloud Level

High-resolution numerical weather prediction models can reproduce the footprints of different weather processes such as convective and stable conditions in the scaling behavior of atmospheric fields. Based on observation and idealized simulations, both -3 scaling behavior in synoptic scales (2000-500 km) and -5/3 in the mesoscale (<500 km) are well established. Using high-resolution Weather and Forecasting Research (WRF) the vertical profile of scaling behavior of horizontal wind and moisture fields are studied associated with different weather processes. Simulations with grid spacing of subkilomoter are used over different topography. The role of energy production due to shear and buoyancy as well as transport mechanisms such as turbulence and pressure terms are analyzed. Different planetary boundary layer parameterizations are considered to take into account the effect of lateral turbulent mixing. The results are interpreted in the context of idealized spectral slopes varying between -3 and -5/3 depending on the weather processes, the flow conditions and vertical elevation. The implication of the results are important to understand the complex nature of scale-dependent predictability at different vertical levels and weather processes as well as downscaling enhancement of the mean field.