Turbulent Dissipation Rate In The Boundary Layer Via UHF Wind Profiler Doppler Spectral Width Measurements

Autor: S. Bernard, E. Dupont, Sandra Jacoby-Koaly, Bernard Campistron, B. Carissimo, J. Dessens, F. Ardhuin-Girard, Bruno Benech
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: ResearcherID
ISSN: 1573-1472
0006-8314
DOI: 10.1023/a:1014985111855
Popis: The study is focused on the retrieval and validation of the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate efrom spectral width measurements made by a UHF wind profiler in the convective atmospheric boundary layer. The possibility to deduce e, which is one of the most important parameters for boundary-layer study and monitoring, from Doppler radar spectral width measurements has a firm theoretical basis established by numerous earlier works. However, the major drawback of this approach lies in various meteorological and instrumental sources of non-turbulent spectral width broadening which have to be recognised and accounted for. In the first part of the study, the theoretical background of the e retrieval is detailed and all possible causes of spectral broadening are listed and evaluated. In the second part, the method is applied to four days of UHF diurnal boundary-layer observations, collected during the TRAC-98 experiment, for which in situ aircraft e measurements were available. Comparison between radar-retrieved eand in situ aircraft measurements yields a fairly good agreement with a linear correlation coefficient of about 0.9 and a residual bias less than 2 × 10-4 m2 s-3. The analysis of ederived from vertical and off-zenith observation leads to the recommendation, that in the boundary layer, where the wind is usually moderate, data collected by off-zenith beams should be used. Indeed, the measurement of the vertical spectral width, less affected by the large-scale broadening factor, can still be altered by the ground clutter removal.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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