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Theoretical studies of diurnal wind-structure variations in the planetary boundary layer

✍ Scribed by K. Buajitti; A. K. Blackadar

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1957
Tongue: English
Weight: 958 KB
Volume: 83
Category: Article
ISSN: 0035-9009
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49708335804

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Abstract

Averages of the wind vector at four times of the day were evaluated for 29 suitable days during the summer of 1951 at Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma City. The periodic portion of the wind variation vector is an ellipse at all levels with the major axis approximately in the direction of the wind vector. The amplitude reaches a maximum at 2,500 ft above the ground.

The cause of the variation is sought by theoretical methods, first by finding what periodic variations would occur when the eddy viscosity is periodic in time and constant with height, and secondly by finding solutions with the aid of an electronic analogue computer for cases when the eddy viscosity is distributed arbitrarily with height. It is concluded that variations of the type which were observed can occur only when both the average value of the eddy viscosity and the amplitude of its variations decrease rapidly with height above the lowest third of the friction layer.

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