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BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY
Volume 168, Issue 3, Pages 517-523Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-018-0355-5
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Complex terrain; Recursive filtering; Signal amplification; Surface-layer turbulence; Zero-phase filter
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We present a refinement of the recursive digital filter proposed by McMillen (Boundary-Layer Meteorol 43:231-245, 1988), for separating surface-layer turbulence from low-frequency fluctuations affecting the mean flow, especially over complex terrain. In fact, a straightforward application of the filter causes both an amplitude attenuation and a forward phase shift in the filtered signal. As a consequence turbulence fluctuations, evaluated as the difference between the original series and the filtered one, as well as higher-order moments calculated from them, may be affected by serious inaccuracies. The new algorithm (i) produces a rigorous zero-phase filter, (ii) restores the amplitude of the low-frequency signal, and (iii) corrects all filter-induced signal distortions.
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