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Local scaling characteristics of Antarctic surface layer turbulence

Cryosphere (2010) 4(3) 325-331
DOI: 10.5194/tc-4-325-2010
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Abstract

Over the past years, several studies have validated Nieuwstadt's local scaling hypothesis by utilizing turbulence observations from the mid-latitude, nocturnal stable boundary layers. In this work, we probe into the local scaling characteristics of polar, long-lived stable boundary layers by analyzing turbulence data from the South Pole region of the antarctic plateau. © Author(s) 2010.

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  • Fig. 1. Time-series (left panel) and diurnal cycle (right panel) of potential (sonic) temperature observed during the ISCAT 2000 field campaign.
  • Fig. 2. Flow chart of the quality control and preprocessing steps.
  • Table 1. Number of runs discarded by quality control and other criteria.
  • Table 2. Summary statistics of normalized flux differences.
  • Fig. 3. The panels from left to right represent normalized variances σu/u∗L, σv/u∗L, σw/u∗L, and σθc/θ∗L, respectively. The upper and lower panels correspond to the 3.1 m and the 7 m sonic anemometers, respectively. All the panels have identical abscissa and ordinate limits.
  • Fig. 5. The panels from left to right represent third-order mo-
  • Fig. 4. The panels from left to right represent correlation coefficients ruw , ruθ , and rwθ , respectively; where ruw = 〈u′w′〉
  • Table 3. The z-less values of turbulence statistics.

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Basu, S., Ruiz-Columbié, A., Phillipson, J. A., & Harshan, S. (2010). Local scaling characteristics of Antarctic surface layer turbulence. Cryosphere, 4(3), 325–331. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-4-325-2010

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