Do stable atmospheric layers exist?

Details Do stable atmospheric layers exist? Do stable atmospheric layers exist?

Jan 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3501802l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 1, CiteID L01802

Physics

Geophysics

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Atmospheric Processes: Turbulence (4490), Atmospheric Processes: Convective Processes, Nonlinear Geophysics: Cascades, Nonlinear Geophysics: Fractals And Multifractals

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The notion of stable atmospheric layers is a classical idealization used for understanding atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics. Using state of the art drop sonde data and using conditional, dynamical and convective stability criteria we show that apparently stable layers are typically composed of a hierarchy of unstable layers themselves with embedded stable sublayers, and unstable sub-sub layers etc. i.e. in a Russian Matryoshka doll-like fractal hierarchy. We therefore argue that the notion of stable atmospheric layers is untenable and must be replaced by modern scaling notions.

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