Atmospheric turbulence decay during the solar total eclipse of 11 August 1999
(2004) Boundary-Layer Meteorology : an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer — Vol. 111, n° 2, p. 301-311 (2004)
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- The studies of turbulence decay were based in the past on measurements carried out in neutrally stratified wind tunnels and, more recently, on large-eddy simulation runs. Here the atmospheric turbulence decay process during the solar total eclipse of 11 August 1999 is examined. Thus a rapid transition from convective boundary-layer turbulence to that of a neutral or slightly stable one is considered. A u-v-w propeller anemometer and a fast response temperature sensor located in northern France on top of a 9-m mast recorded the turbulence observations. The measurements, in terms of turbulent kinetic energy decay with time, were found to be in good agreement with those prescribed by a theoretical model of turbulence decay recently proposed. In particular, it was found that the exponent of the power law describing the decay process has the value -2.
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Anfossi, D., Schayes, G., Degrazia, G., & Goulart, A. (2004). Atmospheric turbulence decay during the solar total eclipse of 11 August 1999. Boundary-Layer Meteorology : an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer, 111(2), 301-311. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BOUN.0000016491.28111.43 (Original work published 2004)