Aircraft observations of boundary layer turbulence: Intermittency and the cascade of energy and passive scalar variance

We analyze boundary layer velocity and temperature measurements acquired by aircraft at 22 Hz. The calculated longitudinal velocity third-order structure function yields approximate agreement with Kolmogorov's four-fifths law for the scale range ∼10-100 m with a downscale energy flux of ∼4×10⁻⁵...

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Main Authors: Cho, John Y. N. (Contributor), Anderson, Bruce E. (Author), Barrick, John D. W. (Author), Thornhill, K. Lee (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2017-08-18T15:20:47Z.
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