Estimation of turbulence dissipation rate and its variability from sonic anemometer and wind Doppler lidar during the XPIA field campaign

Bodini, Nicola; Lundquist, Julie K.; Newsom, Rob K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4291-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4291-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4291-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

Research article

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20 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 20 Jul 2018

Estimation of turbulence dissipation rate and its variability from sonic anemometer and wind Doppler lidar during the XPIA field campaign

Nicola Bodini, Julie K. Lundquist, and Rob K. Newsom

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4291-2018-supplement

Data sets

XPIA - Sonic Anemometer, BAO Tower, All levels L. Bianco https://doi.org/10.21947/1328878

Short summary

Turbulence within the atmospheric boundary layer is critically important to transfer heat, momentum, and moisture. Currently, improved turbulence parametrizations are crucially needed to refine the accuracy of model results at fine horizontal scales. In this study, we calculate turbulence dissipation rate from sonic anemometers and discuss a novel approach to derive turbulence dissipation from profiling lidar measurements.