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Observations of the dispersion of a contaminant plume in the atmospheric boundary layer, obtained using a Lidar, are analysed in the coordinate frame relative to the instantaneous centre of mass of the plume, as well as the absolute (or fixed) coordinate frame. The study extends the work presented in a previous article, which analysed the structure of the probability density function (pdf) of concentration within the relative coordinate frame. Firstly, the plume displacement component, or plume meander, is analysed and a simple parametric form for the pdf of the plume centreline position is suggested. This is then used to analyse the accuracy and applicability of absolute framework statistical quantities obtained by a convolution of the relative frame statistical quantity with the plume centreline pdf.
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Munro, R.J., Chatwin, P.C. & Mole, N. Some Simple Statistical Models For Relative And Absolute Dispersion. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 107, 253–271 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022102526675
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