Physics – Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Scientific paper
2003-12-11
J. Atmos. Sci. 61, 23, 2936-2942 (2004)
Physics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
19 pages, 1 table + 5 (pdf) figures
Scientific paper
10.1175/JAS-3292.1
The EOLE Experiment is revisited to study turbulent processes in the lower stratosphere circulation from a Lagrangian viewpoint and resolve a discrepancy on the slope of the atmospheric energy spectrum between the work of Morel and Larcheveque (1974) and recent studies using aircraft data. Relative dispersion of balloon pairs is studied by calculating the Finite Scale Lyapunov Exponent, an exit time-based technique which is particularly efficient in cases where processes with different spatial scales are interfering. Our main result is to reconciliate the EOLE dataset with recent studies supporting a k^{-5/3} energy spectrum in the range 100-1000 km. Our results also show exponential separation at smaller scale, with characteristic time of order 1 day, and agree with the standard diffusion of about 10^7 m^2/s at large scales. A still open question is the origin of a k^{-5/3} spectrum in the mesoscale range, between 100 and 1000 km.
Aurell Erik
Lacorata Guglielmo
Legras Bernard
Vulpiani Angelo
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