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: Received: 12 March 2021 / Approved: 15 March 2021 / Online: 15 March 2021 (08:14:10 CET)
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Potekaev, A.; Shamanaeva, L.; Kulagina, V. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Kinetic Energy in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Minisodar Measurements. Preprints2021, 2021030363. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0363.v1
Potekaev, A.; Shamanaeva, L.; Kulagina, V. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Kinetic Energy in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Minisodar Measurements. Preprints 2021, 2021030363. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0363.v1
Potekaev, A.; Shamanaeva, L.; Kulagina, V. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Kinetic Energy in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Minisodar Measurements. Preprints2021, 2021030363. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0363.v1
APA Style
Potekaev, A., Shamanaeva, L., & Kulagina, V. (2021). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Kinetic Energy in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Minisodar Measurements. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0363.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Potekaev, A., Liudmila Shamanaeva and Valentina Kulagina. 2021 "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Kinetic Energy in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Minisodar Measurements" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202103.0363.v1
Abstract
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the atmospheric kinetic energy and its components caused by the ordered and turbulent motions of air masses are estimated from minisodar measurements of three velocity vector components and their variances within the lowest 5–200 m layer of the atmosphere, with a particular emphasis on the turbulent kinetic energy. The layered structure of the total atmospheric kinetic energy has been established. From the diurnal hourly dynamics of the altitude profiles of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) retrieved from minisodar data, four layers are established by the character of the altitude TKE dependence, namely, the near-ground layer, the surface layer, the layer with a linear TKE increase, and the transitive layer above. In the first layer, the most significant changes of the ТКЕ were observed in the evening hours. In the second layer, no significant changes in the TKE values were observed. A linear increase in the TKE values with altitude was observed in the third layer. In the fourth layer, the TKE slightly increased with altitude and exhibited variations during the entire observation period. The altitudes of the upper boundaries of these layers depended on the time of day. The MKE values were much less than the corresponding TKE values, they did not exceed 50 m2/s2. From two to four MKE layers were distinguished based on the character of its altitude dependence. The two-layer structures were observed in the evening and at night (under conditions of the stable atmospheric boundary layer). In the morning and daytime, the four-layer MKE structures with intermediate layers of linear increase and subsequent decrease in the MKE values were observed. Our estimates demonstrated that the ТКЕ contribution to the total atmospheric kinetic energy considerably (by a factor of 2.5–3) exceeded the corresponding МКЕ contribution.
Keywords
atmospheric boundary layer; spatiotemporal dynamics of the atmospheric kinetic energy; turbulence; minisodar measurements
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
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