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Are the effects of large scale flow conditions really lost through the turbulent cascade?
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone” - Napoli Section, Naples, Italy
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone” - Napoli Section, Naples, Italy
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone” - Napoli Section, Naples, Italy
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
The conceptual framework for modeling the inertial subrange is strongly influenced by the Kolmogorov cascade phenomena, which is nowadays the subject of significant reinterpretation. It has been argued that the effects of boundary conditions influence large-scale motion and direct interaction between large and small scales is possible by means other than passing sequentially through the full cascade. Using longitudinal (u) and vertical (w) velocity and temperature (T) time series measurements collected in the atmospheric surface layer (ASL), we evaluate whether the inertial subrange multifractral function (f(α)) of all three flow variables is influenced by atmospheric stability (ξ), which is a bulk measure of the effect of boundary conditions on large scale flow properties for ASL turbulence. This study is the first to demonstrate that ξ significantly influences f(α) for all three flow variables. Here, statistical significance is evaluated using a novel wavelet-based Functional Analysis of Variance (FANOVA) approach that explicitly considers different classes of ξ, the flow variable type, and possible interactions between ξ and the three flow variables.
Published 21 February 2003.
Citation: (2003), Are the effects of large scale flow conditions really lost through the turbulent cascade?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(4), 1164, doi:10.1029/2002GL015284.
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