Comments on ‘the characteristics of turbulent velocity components in the surface layer under convective conditions’, by H. A. Panofsky, H. Tennekes, D. H. Lenschow, and J. C. Wyngaard

✍ Scribed by B. B. Hicks

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-8314
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00121926

✦ Synopsis

Panofsky et al. (1977)

have presented an analysis which seems to show a clear dependence of the dimensionless turbulence statistics U./U, and a,/~, on the planetary boundary-layer stability parameter zJL. However it is possible that much of the apparent relationship results from artificial correlations introduced by the use of inter-related dimensionless parameters. Apparent dependencies of similar statistical quantities on z/L in the surface boundary layer might also be contaminated.