Horizontal and oblique spectra of temperature fluctuations in a stably stratified troposphere |
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| Authors: | A S Gurvich V P Kukharets |
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| Institution: | (1) A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 3, Moscow, 119017, Russia |
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| Abstract: | The first experimental studies of the spatial oblique and vertical spectra of temperature fluctuations in a stably stratified troposphere at heights of 2 to 8 km were conducted. The measurements were taken over northern European Russia. The spectra cover the wave number range from 5 10?4 to 3 10?2 rad/m. The estimates obtained for the spectral density are analyzed on the basis of a model developed previously for the three-dimensional (3D) spectrum of temperature fluctuations generated by a statistical ensemble of internal waves. This model made it possible to consider both oblique and horizontal spectra from a unified point of view and to use a unified set of parameters on the basis of the 3D spectrum concept. The quantitative estimates obtained for the parameters of the 3D spectrum have shown that large-scale temperature inhomogeneities with a vertical size of more than a hundred meters are strongly extended along the land surface. They have approximately the same form; their horizontal sizes are at least 20 times greater than their vertical sizes. The anisotropy of temperature inhomogeneities decreases with a decrease in their vertical sizes and reaches 1.5–2 for vertical sizes of 10–20 m or smaller. |
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