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Production, transport and dissipation terms in the temperature variance equation have been measured in the atmospheric surface layer. The transport term is, within the experimental uncertainty, negligible. The dissipation term, determined by assuming local isotropy, is approximately equal to production under near-neutral conditions. For moderately unstable conditions, the ratio of production to dissipation is 1.4. The resulting imbalance in the budget is attributed to the inequality between the three components of the dissipation term. The Kolmogorov constant for temperature is found to be about 0.8.
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Bradley, E.F., Antonia, R.A. & Chambers, A.J. Temperature structure in the atmospheric surface layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 20, 275–292 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121373
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