On the evaluation of the proportionality coefficient between the turbulence temperature spectrum and structure parameter
Abstract
The turbulence temperature spectrum and structure parameter are related through a widely-adopted proportionality coefficient. We formally derive this expression, and present further evidence, to demonstrate that this coefficient is too large by a factor of two.
Type
Publication
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(8), 2761–2763
Authors
Physical Scientist
I am a Physical Scientist at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. My research includes computational and theoretical studies of atmospheric boundary-layer flows, turbulence modeling, land-surface modeling, parameterization of boundary-layer and surface-layer interactions, and multi-scale numerical weather prediction. I am currently working on projects to improve atmospheric models in the areas of scale-aware boundary-layer physics, heterogeneous boundary layers, and other storm-scale phenomena.