Scaling, Anisotropy, and Complexity in Near-Surface Atmospheric Turbulence.

ABSTRACT: The development of a unified similarity scaling has so far failed over complex surfaces, as scaling studies show large deviations from the empirical formulations developed over flat and horizontally homogeneous terrain as well as large deviations between the different complex terrain data sets. However, a recent study of turbulence anisotropy for flat and horizontally homogeneous terrain has shown that separating the data according to the limiting states of anisotropy (isotropic, two-component axisymmetric and one-component turbulence) improves near-surface scaling. In this paper we explore whether this finding can be extended to turbulence over inclined and horizontally heterogeneous surfaces by examining near-surface scaling for 12 different data sets obtained over terrain ranging from f

SUBMITTER: Stiperski I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6392143 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature