Diurnal and seasonal variability of TKE dissipation rate in the ABL over a tropical station using UHF wind profiler

Details Diurnal and seasonal variability of TKE dissipation rate in the ABL over a tropical station using UHF wind profiler Diurnal and seasonal variability of TKE dissipation rate in the ABL over a tropical station using UHF wind profiler

Apr 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007jastp..69..419k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 69, Issue 4-5, p. 419-430.

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This paper presents the diurnal and seasonal variation of Turbulence Kinetic Energy (TKE) dissipation rate (ɛ) in the Atmospheric Boundary-Layer (ABL) over a tropical station, Gadanki (13.5° N, 79.2° E) in India. Doppler spectral width measurements made by Lower Atmospheric Wind Profiler (LAWP) operating at 1357 MHz are utilized to estimate ɛ in the height region of 0.5 4.0 km on clear air days. Various non-turbulent spectral broadenings are calculated and separated out from the observed spectral width before estimating ɛ. It is found that in the lower tropospheric height region ɛ is in the range from 10-5.0 to 10-1.0 m2 s-3. ɛ showed significant diurnal variation in the boundary-layer. The larger values of ɛ, 10 2.7 m2 s-3, are noted to be associated with the Convective Boundary-Layer (CBL). The parameter ɛ is also showing significant seasonal variation. In summer and monsoon seasons the boundary-layer depths are observed up to a height of ˜4.0 km while the same are confined to below 2.0 km in post-monsoon and winter seasons.

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