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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 121, 期 20, 页码 11946-11967出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025289
关键词
spectral structure; horizontal wind speed; Boulder Atmospheric Observatory; spectral gap; 5year time series; upscale energy cascade
资金
- Weather Information Service Engine Program of the Korea Meteorological Administration [KMIPA-2012-0001-1]
- Korea Meteorological Institute (KMI) [KMIPA-2012-0001-1] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
We investigate the spectral structures of 5year, 1min time series of horizontal wind speeds at 100 and 10m heights at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory tower located in the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, USA. In the full-scale spectra, the diurnal spectral peak, which is usually insignificant at a coastal or offshore site, is the most significant at both heights. The spectrum is enhanced on the low-frequency side of the diurnal peak during winter, but on the high-frequency side during summer, which indicates frequent synoptic weather events during winter supplanted by mesoscale events during summer. In terms of the spectral density in the spectral gap of Van der Hoven (1957), separating boundary layer turbulence from the synoptic-scale fluctuations, at a frequency between 10(-4) and 10(-3)Hz, we rank the daily time series at 100m height and sample the summer top and winter bottom 10 percentile cases. The winter cases of the reduced spectral density in the gap region present the f(-3) spectrum (f is frequency) and negatively skewed velocity increment distributions, which are the signatures of enstrophy (the integral of squared vorticity) cascade of turbulent two-dimensional (2-D) flows. In contrast, the summer cases of the enhanced spectral density present the f(-5/3) spectrum and positively skewed velocity increment distributions, which are the signatures of upscale energy cascade of 2-D flows. In these mesoscale events that fill up the gap, the turbulence intensity-wind speed relationship is very sensitive to the choice of the averaging period.
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