TURBULENT FLOW OF MOMENTUM IN THE CASE OF UNSTABLE STRATIFICATION AND CONDITIONS CLOSE TO NEUTRAL EQUILIBRIUM (Turbulentnyi Potok Kolichestva Dvizheniya pri Neustoichivoi Stratifikatsii i Usloviyakh, Blizkikh k Bezrazlichnomu Ravnovesiyu),

Abstract

The study of turbulent exchange in the surface layer of the atmosphere is of great interest in meteorology. Actually, the basic transfer of heat and moisture into the bottom layers of the atmosphere is a result of the turbulent exchange in the very lowest layers of air. Of practical interest is the study of the relation of the vertical profiles of wind velocity and temperature to turbulent exchange, since this relation makes it possible to compute the exchange characteristics from the results of the measurement of these profiles. The study of the transport momentum enables one to find the coefficients of turbulent exchange, the rate of dissipation of the kinetic energy, etc. By itself the eddy stress is one of the most important characteristics of turbulent motion.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0690322

Entities

People

  • A. S. Gurvich

Organizations

  • American Meteorological Society

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheres
  • Coefficients
  • Dissipation
  • Energy
  • Flow
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Moisture
  • Momentum
  • Physical Properties
  • Stratification
  • Transport Ships
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Information Retrieval
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers