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Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7941-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-7941-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 12
Research article
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30 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 30 Jun 2017

Case study of wave breaking with high-resolution turbulence measurements with LITOS and WRF simulations

Andreas Schneider, Johannes Wagner, Jens Faber, Michael Gerding, and Franz-Josef Lübken

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Wave breaking is studied with a combination of high-resolution turbulence observations with the balloon-borne instrument LITOS and mesoscale simulations with the WRF model. A relation between observed turbulent energy dissipation rates and the occurrence of wave patterns in modelled vertical winds is found, which is interpreted as the effect of wave saturation. The change of stability plays less of a role for mean dissipation for the flights examined.
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