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Atmospheric Turbulence Characteristics Over a Temperature-Inhomogeneous Land Surface. Part II: The Effect of Small-Scale Inhomogeneities of Surface Temperature on Some Characteristics of the Atmospheric Surface Layer

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Turbulence characteristics, vertical profiles of wind velocity u(z) and air temperature T(z), and also spatial variations in steppe surface radiation temperature Tr(x) are measured simultaneously. A marked effect of Tr(x) characteristics on the turbulence characteristics and T(z) profiles is observed in the lower part of the atmospheric surface layer. We suggest that variability in Tr(x) noticeably influences the surface-layer temperature field and leads to scatter in the values of the universal functions obtained by different authors; effects of Tr(x) are not accounted for in similarity theory. The introduction of the value of temperature zero-plane displacement dT in the calculation formulae (to determine temperature flux) noticeably improves the agreement between calculated and measured (by eddy-correlation method) results. The influence of footprint (or Source Area) on the obtained results leads to noticeable scatter in the data obtained from measurements of atmospheric turbulence.

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  1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    L.R. Tsvang, V.P. Kukharets & V.G. Perepelkin

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Tsvang, L., Kukharets, V. & Perepelkin, V. Atmospheric Turbulence Characteristics Over a Temperature-Inhomogeneous Land Surface. Part II: The Effect of Small-Scale Inhomogeneities of Surface Temperature on Some Characteristics of the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 86, 103–124 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000652913936

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