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On the structure of convection

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Conditional sampling methods are used to investigate the structure of thermals in a dry atmospheric convection layer. Temperature and vertical velocity data obtained from an aircraft flying above the surface layer are analysed. The thermal structure is found to be consistent with free-convection similarity theory.

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  1. Division of Cloud Physics, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

    M. J. Manton

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Manton, M.J. On the structure of convection. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 12, 491–503 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00123194

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