Call number:
ZSP-201-87/21
In:
CRREL Report, 87-21
Description / Table of Contents:
The author measured time series of longitudinal (u) and vertical (w) velocity and temperature (t) and humidity (q) fluctuations with fast-responding sensors in the near-neutrally stable surface layer over a snow-covered field. These series yielded individual spectra and u-w, w-t, w-q and t-q cospectra, phase spectra and coherence spectra for nondimensional frequencies (fz/U) from roughly 0.001 to 10. With the exception of the u-w cospectra, all the spectra and cospectra displayed the expected dependence on frequency in an inertial or inertial-convective subrange. All, however, contained significantly more energy at low frequency than the Kansas neutral-stability spectra and cospectra. This excess low-frequency energy and the erratic behavior of the u-w cospectra imply that forested hills bordering the site on two sides were producing disturbances in the flow field at scales roughly equal to the height of the hills, 100 m. The phase and coherence spectra suggest that internal gravity waves were also frequently present, since the atmospheric boundary layer generally had slightly stable stratification. Consequently, at this complex site, turbulence alone determines the spectra and cospectra at high frequency; at low frequency the spectra and cospectra reflect a combination of topographically generated turbulence and internal waves. From the measured temperature and humidity spectra and the t-q cospectra, the author computed refractive index spectra for light of 0.55-micrometer and millimeter wavelengths. The refractive index spectra had shapes like the other scalar spectra: excess energy at low frequency and an inertial-convective subrange at high frequency.
Type of Medium:
Series available for loan
Pages:
v, 50 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
CRREL Report 87-21
URL:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a190217.pdf
URL:
https://hdl.handle.net/11681/9027
Language:
English
Note:
CONTENTS
Abstract
Preface
Introduction
Measurements
Spectra
u and w velocity spectra
Temperature and humidity spectra
Inertial-dissipation estimates
Cospectra
u-w cospectra
w-t and w-q cospectra
t-q cospectra
Refractive index spectra
Conclusions
Literature cited
Location:
AWI Archive
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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