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Eddy energy dissipation rate and puff diffusion during calms

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The paper considers a puff diffusion in its inertial stage when particle separation obeys the laws of the inertial subrange and depends only on eddy energy dissipation rate ε. The ε can be determined in the surface layer by the turbulent kinetic energy equation. Similarity equations connect ε with diffusion measure Σ.

A simple analytical model has been deduced to estimate pollutants diffusion during calms.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Geophysical Institute, Horvatovac bb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

    Nadežda Šinik

  2. Hydrometeorological Institute, Grič 3, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

    Edita Lončar

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Šinik, N., Lončar, E. Eddy energy dissipation rate and puff diffusion during calms. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 41, 287–293 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120445

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