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Shipboard measurements of temperature fluctuations, mean wind, temperature, and humidity permit comparisons to be made of experimental and empirical estimates of ct 2, the temperature structure function parameter. Surface flux estimates are obtained from bulk aerodynamic formulae. Temperature fluctuation data are selected to minimize a salt-contamination effect which causes increases in temperature variance. Predictions for CT 2 based on surface flux scaling agree within 20%, except for near neutral and large unstable conditions where disagreement can be attributed to measurement problems.
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Davidson, K.L., Houlihan, T.M., Fairall, C.W. et al. Observation of the temperature structure function parameter, C T 2, over the ocean. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 15, 507–523 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120611
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