TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST 62 METERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE

Abstract

Turbulent characteristics of the first 62 meters of the atmosphere in the vicinity of the U. S. Army Electronics Research and Development Activity's Meteorological Research Tower are established for neutral conditions. The assumption was made that the roughness length is a constant, but dependent upon direction, fetch, and the height of the roughness elements. Data are presented for five recording periods during the late winter and early spring of 1958 and 1961. Computations of the basic wind profile and turbulence parameters are presented in tabular form.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0426681

Entities

People

  • Frank V. Hansen

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Coefficients
  • Drag
  • Ecology
  • Electronics
  • Friction
  • Layers
  • Length
  • New Mexico
  • Spectra
  • Standards
  • Surfaces
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Turbulence
  • Viscosity
  • Wind Direction
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Ballistic Missile Meteorology
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics