Abstract
Using eigenfunctions of the two‐point correlation function to study convection with multiple phase transformations
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
We describe and illustrate a new approach for extracting and understanding the pattern of flow in complex, time‐dependent convection. In this approach we calculate the eigenfunctions of the two‐point correlation function and show that the two‐point correlation can be efficiently characterized by the dominant few eigenmodes. We apply this methodology to extract structural information from convection models with two phase transformations.
Received 12 August 1996; accepted 27 January 1997; .
Citation: (1997), Using eigenfunctions of the two‐point correlation function to study convection with multiple phase transformations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24(6), 703–706.
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