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09 Sep 2015
Research article |
| 09 Sep 2015
Turbulence vertical structure of the boundary layer during the afternoon transition
C. Darbieu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5560, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5560, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
M. Lothon
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5560, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
J. Vilà-Guerau de Arellano
Meteorology and Air Quality Section, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
F. Couvreux
CNRM-GAME (Météo-France and CNRS), Toulouse, France
P. Durand
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5560, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Department of Applied Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC-UPC), Barcelona, Spain
E. G. Patton
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
E. Nilsson
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5560, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
E. Blay-Carreras
Department of Applied Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
Institute of Biometeorology, National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), Florence, Italy
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A case study of the BLLAST experiment is considered to explore the decay of turbulence that occurs in the convective boundary layer over land during the afternoon. Based on observations and on a large-eddy simulation, the analysis reveals two phases in the afternoon: a first quasi-stationary phase when the turbulent kinetic energy slowly decays without significant change in the turbulence structure and a second phase of more rapid decay with a change in spectral turbulence characteristics.
A case study of the BLLAST experiment is considered to explore the decay of turbulence that...
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