Lidar positioning of higher clear-air turbulence regions

The possibility of lidar positioning of regions with higher clear-air turbulence (CAT) is shown. The turbulence is indicated by air density fluctuations generated by it. A scheme with a lidar based on using the backscattering enhecement (BSE) effect in a turbulent medium is considered. A stable solution of the positioning problem is obtained using the statistical regularization method. As is shown on models, CAT regions that are dangerous for civil aviation flights can be detected using such a lidar.     

Lidar sounding of turbulence based on the backscatter enhancement effect

A simple derivation of the equations describing the backscatter enhancement (BSE) effect of waves on small inhomogeneities in a randomly inhomogeneous medium is presented. The BSE effect is considered in a locally isotropic turbulent atmosphere. It is shown that a system of remote sounding of atmospheric turbulence can be constructed on the basis of BSE measurements. The scheme of a lidar for BSE measurement, along with routine lidar sounding, is proposed. With the use of models it is shown that regions of increased turbulence can be detected with such a lidar.     

Characteristics of oceanic mesoscale variabilities associated with the inverse kinetic energy cascade

Oceanic geostrophic turbulence theory predicts significant inverse kinetic energy(KE) cascades at scales larger than the energy injection wavelength. However, the characteristics of the mesoscale variabilities associated with the inverse KE cascade in the real oceans have not been clear enough up to now. To further examine this problem,we analyzed the spectral characteristics of the oceanic mesoscale motions over the scales of inverse KE cascades based on high-resolution gridded altimeter data. The applicability of the quasigeostrophic(QG) turbulence theory and the surface quasigeostrophic(SQG) turbulence theory in real oceans is further explored. The results show that the sea surface height(SSH) spectral slope is linearly related to the eddy-kinetic-energy(EKE) level with a high correlation coefficient value of 0.67. The findings also suggest that the QG turbulence theory is an appropriate dynamic framework at the edge of high-EKE regions and that the SQG theory is more suitable in tropical regions and low-EKE regions at mid-high latitudes. New anisotropic characteristics of the inverse KE cascade are also provided. These results indicate that the along-track spectrum used by previous studies cannot reveal the dynamics of the mesoscale variabilities well.     

Rhines效应对高度计观测的海洋中尺度涡空间分布特征的影响

Rhines效应是指Rossby波和大湍流（中尺度涡）相互作用,将涡动能量以波的形式传播出去,从而使中尺度涡发生形变,最终消亡的一种动力学机制。本文通过比较海洋里涡特征速度和Rossby长波波速的方法,研究了一种广义的Rhines效应对高度计观测的海洋中尺度涡空间分布特征的影响。结果显示,广义Rhines效应比只考虑行星涡度梯度的传统形式对中尺度涡的分布具有更显著的影响。大部分中尺度涡分布在涡特征速度（U_e）大于由广义Beta值计算的Rossby长波波速（U_cg）的区域。这些涡可以由动能反向串级过程获取能量,成长为振幅和空间尺度较大的涡。热带海域以外的“涡旋沙漠”区域,中尺度涡的数量稀少,强度很弱,大都分布于U_ecg的海域。广义Rhines效应可能是这些海域中尺度涡难以成长的动力学机制。     

Three-parameter model of turbulence for the atmospheric boundary layer over an urbanized surface

A modified three-parameter model of turbulence for a thermally stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is presented. The model is based on tensor-invariant parametrizations for the pressure-strain and pressure-temperature correlations that are more complete than the parametrizations used in the Mellor-Yamada model of level 3.0. The turbulent momentum and heat fluxes are calculated with explicit algebraic models obtained with the aid of symbol algebra from the transport equations for momentum and heat fluxes in the approximation of weakly equilibrium turbulence. The turbulent transport of heat and momentum fluxes is assumed to be negligibly small in this approximation. The three-parameter E ? ε ? 2> model of thermally stratified turbulence is employed to obtain closed-form algebraic expressions for the fluxes. A computational test of a 24-h ABL evolution is implemented for an idealized two-dimensional region. Comparison of the computed results with the available observational data and other numerical models shows that the proposed model is able to reproduce both the most important structural features of the turbulence in an urban canopy layer near the urbanized ABL surface and the effect of urban roughness on a global structure of the fields of wind and temperature over a city. The results of the computational test for the new model indicate that the motion of air in the urban canopy layer is strongly influenced by mechanical factors (buildings) and thermal stratification.     

Experimental hydrodynamic investigation of a fixed offshore Oscillating Water Column device

Oscillating Water Column (OWC) is one of the pioneer devices in harnessing wave energy; however, it is not fully commercialized perhaps due to the complicated hydrodynamic behavior. Previous studies are significantly devoted to OWC devices located in nearshore and coastal regions where incident wave energy would experience dissipation more than offshore. In this paper, a 1:15 scaled fixed offshore OWC model is tested in a large towing tank of National Iranian Marine Laboratory. Wave spectrum shape effect on the efficiency of the OWC model is addressed. Moreover, the paper investigates the effects of the geometric and hydrodynamic factors on OWC device efficiency and uncovers new points in nonlinear interaction occurring inside the chamber; i.e. sloshing. The results indicate that shape of the spectrum inside the chamber is affected by the type of incident wave spectrum, especially for long waves. Pierson–Moskowitz spectrum leaded to higher efficiency rather than JONSWAP spectrum at longer incident wave periods. According to efficiency analysis, increasing wave height may lead to air leakage from the chamber followed by vortex generation, which is a reason for decreasing the efficiency of the OWC device. Furthermore, no shift in the resonant period of the OWC model, due to wave height increase, was observed at the opening ratios equal or smaller than 1.28%. Spectral analysis of water fluctuation inside the OWC chamber illustrates two modes of sloshing. The first mode can be seen at short period waves while the second mode is visible at long period waves. The sloshing modes approximately vanish by increasing draft value.     

On the properties of decaying two-dimensional turbulence: Characteristic features of the spectra and coherent structures

The main results of the theory of two-dimensional turbulence are presented. The conventional approach based on the Karman-Howarth equation is used to describe anomalous properties (sharply differing from those inherent in usual three-dimensional turbulence) of two-dimensional turbulent motion of an incompressible fluid, in particular, energy transfer across the spectrum from larger toward smaller wave numbers and the formation of coherent structures, whose origin is associated with the fact that the spectrum attains the form of a δ-function. A uniform method is proposed for obtaining self-similar spectra of two-dimensional turbulence in inertial ranges. The problem of turbulent diffusion of a passive tracer in the two-dimensional case is also considered. It turns out that the corresponding quantities, as well as those related to the dynamic characteristics of motion, can exhibit anomalous properties under certain conditions. The relationship between the results and experimental data is discussed. In particular, the experimentally observed inversion of the spectra of two-dimensional turbulence in the atmosphere is explained.     

Determination of parameters of the spectrum of internal waves in the stratosphere from space-based observations of strong stellar scintillation

Observation of stars from a spacecraft through the Earth’s atmosphere is a constituent part of remote sensing of the atmosphere. Recorded scintillation signals contain data on the structure of air-density irregularities induced by turbulence and internal waves. Currently, parameters of the structure in the stratosphere are determined using the procedures based on the weak-scintillation theory. However, during stellar occultation by the Earth’s atmosphere, scintillation becomes stronger as the line of sight plunges into denser air layers. This paper considers the problem of remote sensing of stratospheric irregularities under strong-scintillation conditions. The scintillation spectra are calculated in the phase-screen approximation under the assumption that the spectrum of the phase added by the screen corresponds to observations through the stratosphere. It is assumed that stratospheric irregularities of air density are generated by an ensemble of saturated internal waves whose three-dimensional spectrum contains two characteristic wave numbers corresponding to the outer and inner scales. In the calculation, no restrictions are imposed on the observed scintillation amplitude. It is shown that the effect of the scintillation amplitude on the observed scintillation spectra appears most prominent for large wave numbers corresponding to irregularities whose sizes are smaller than the inner scale. For these wave numbers, deviations from the weak-scintillation theory become appreciable if the rms relative fluctuation of light intensity exceeds 0.3. In contrast, for small wave numbers corresponding to scales exceeding the outer scale, the weak-scintillation theory remains valid to rms values as large as 2. Analysis of calculated spectra has shown that the parameters of the three-dimensional spectra of stratospheric irregularities can be retrieved under the conditions of relatively strong scintillation characterized by an rms value below 1.5–1.6.     

Retrieval of integral parameters of tropospheric aerosol from two-wavelength lidar sounding

A scheme of interpreting the data of two-wavelength lidar sounding is proposed. The scheme is based on functional relationships between the lidar ratios and between some integral characteristics of aerosol and the ratio of the backscattering coefficients at the sounding wavelengths. The AERONET data, results of contact aerosol measurements and multiwavelength lidar sounding, and the OPAC aerosol model are used to find these functional relationships, which are statistical in character. Analysis of data is made separately for continental, dust, oceanic, and smoke aerosols. Backscattering for mineral aerosol fractions are calculated for a model of randomly oriented spheroids. A numerical experiment shows that the errors in determining a number of integral parameters of aerosol (extinction coefficient, characteristic radius of particles, volume concentrations) that are due to the statistical straggling of lidar ratios and other specified integral characteristics are no greater than 32% if the optical thickness of the sounding layer is no greater than 1.     

基于本征正交分解的湍流去噪

在近岸河口湍流研究中,实测的湍流资料往往容易受到噪声的影响,导致湍流特征量的估算出现偏差。本征正交分解是一种将流场在能量上进行分解再重构的方法,基于该方法,结合数值实验和野外实测资料,对包含噪声的湍流数据进行了去噪处理。结果表明：（1）本征正交分解能有效去除湍流中的噪声。在进行信号重构时,应将保留能量的百分比与湍流能量占比保持一致。去噪的效果与噪声占比有关,噪声占比越高,去噪效果越明显。（2）在实测资料中,憩流时刻的噪声占比要显著大于非憩流时刻,水平方向的噪声占比要大于垂直方向。经过本征正交分解去噪后,各湍流特征量的估算更加合理。     

基于水下滑翔机的湍流观测平台研究

海洋湍流混合过程对大洋热盐环流具有重要调控作用,因此海洋湍流混合特征量如湍动能耗散率等物理量的定量刻画,主要通过现场湍流观测来实现。为满足长期连续海洋湍流混合观测资料的迫切需求及打破国外的技术封锁,自行研制了基于水下滑翔机的湍流观测仪。为了测试滑翔机在小尺度湍流观测方面的可行性,将一个携带有剪切探头的湍流仪安装在滑翔机本体上,并在千岛湖进行了一系列的实验。滑翔机平台的主要噪声来源于浮力调节机构中的油泵,油泵会在接近剖面的底端时开启。三轴加速度谱在30 Hz左右有明显的谱峰,说明滑翔机油泵的振动频率应该是在30 Hz左右,在其他频率点上振动较小。由剖面下潜过程(开泵)的波数谱可知,开泵时虽然对湍流观测有影响,但是振动频率在波数空间中处于无效观测谱一侧,由此说明平台的振动对剪切信号影响很小。剪切探头测得的耗散率在10-7 W/kg量级上,且都与Nasymth理论谱吻合良好,验证了滑翔机在小尺度湍流观测方面的可行性。     

白天工作条件下大气激光雷达探测的实验研究

作者在已完成大气激光雷达系统夜间工作的基础上 ,对白天工作条件下的各种环境背景光的干扰进行了理论与实验分析 ,得出太阳直射光和天空光为白天工作的主要背景干扰。实验结果表明 ,经过激光发射与接收视场角严格匹配及使用干涉滤光器 (2 .6 nm和 0 .15nm)进行窄带滤波 ,背景干扰被明显地剔除 ,可进一步压低背景干扰约 2 0倍。证明采取视场匹配及干涉滤光器的措施可基本保证激光雷达系统在白天条件下工作。     

Simulation of Gravity Currents Using VOF Model

By the Volume of Fluid (VOF) rnultiphase flow model two-dimensional gravity currents with three phases including air are numerically simulated in this article. The necessity of consideration of turbulence effect for high Reynolds numbers is demonstrated quantitatively by LES (the Large Eddy Simulation) turbulence model. The gravity currents are simulated for h ≠ H as well as h= H, where h is the depth of the gravity current before the release and H is the depth of the in-truded fluid. Uprising of swell occurs when a current flows horizontally into another lighter one for h ≠ H. The problems under what condition the uprising of swell occurs and how long it takes are considered in this article. All the simulated results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental results available.     

Combining Lidar Elevation Data and IKONOS Multispectral Imagery for Coastal Classification Mapping

This article studies the effect of airborne lidar (surface) elevation data on the classification of multispectral IKONOS images over a coastal area. The lidar data and IKONOS images are treated as independent multiple bands to conduct the classification. To do so, the lidar elevation data is first resampled to the same ground spacing interval and stretched to the same radiometric range as the IKONOS images. An unsupervised classification based on the ISODATA algorithm is then used to determine a class schema of six classes: road, water, marsh, roof, tree, and sand. Training sites and checking sites are selected over the lidar-IKONOS merged data set for the subsequent supervised classification and quality evaluation. The complete confusion matrices and average quality indices are presented to assess and compare the classification results. It is shown that the inclusion of the lidar elevation data benefits the separation of classes that have similar spectral characteristics, such as roof and road, water and marsh. The overall classification errors, especially the false positive errors, are reduced by up to 50%. Moreover, by using the lidar elevation data, the classification results show more realistic and homogeneous distribution of geographic features. This property will benefit the subsequent vectorization of the classification maps and the integration of the vector data into a geographical information system.     

Combining Lidar Elevation Data and IKONOS Multispectral Imagery for Coastal Classification Mapping

This article studies the effect of airborne lidar (surface) elevation data on the classification of multispectral IKONOS images over a coastal area. The lidar data and IKONOS images are treated as independent multiple bands to conduct the classification. To do so, the lidar elevation data is first resampled to the same ground spacing interval and stretched to the same radiometric range as the IKONOS images. An unsupervised classification based on the ISODATA algorithm is then used to determine a class schema of six classes: road, water, marsh, roof, tree, and sand. Training sites and checking sites are selected over the lidar-IKONOS merged data set for the subsequent supervised classification and quality evaluation. The complete confusion matrices and average quality indices are presented to assess and compare the classification results. It is shown that the inclusion of the lidar elevation data benefits the separation of classes that have similar spectral characteristics, such as roof and road, water and marsh. The overall classification errors, especially the false positive errors, are reduced by up to 50%. Moreover, by using the lidar elevation data, the classification results show more realistic and homogeneous distribution of geographic features. This property will benefit the subsequent vectorization of the classification maps and the integration of the vector data into a geographical information system.     

Simultaneous acoustic observations of turbulence and zooplankton in the ocean

Models and laboratory experiments show that zooplankton may locate food more easily in turbulent waters, but whether plankton seek or avoid turbulence in the ocean is an open question. It is difficult to measure turbulence and plankton simultaneously and with the necessary spatial resolution using traditional methods (nets and airfoil shear sensors). Acoustics is commonly used to survey zooplankton abundance and recent studies have shown that stratified turbulence can also be a significant source of sound scatter. This may seem like more of a complication than a boon for those aiming to use acoustics to observe plankton in turbulence. We present acoustic data, however, that show that zooplankton and turbulence can be observed simultaneously with a single 307 kHz sounder. The different natures of the two targets (discrete targets versus a volume effect) allow them to be distinguished. The key is sampling the same targets at multiple ranges. The volume scattering strength of a discrete target will increase as the target nears the sounder, because the volume sampled decreases. Turbulence, as a volume scattering effect, has little range dependence to its volume scattering strength.     

On the effect of spray on the dynamics of the marine atmospheric surface layer in strong winds

A nonlinear analytical model of the near-water air layer is considered. In the model, the effect of spray droplets on turbulent exchange is taken into account through their effect on density stratification. To close the system of equations, a semiempirical turbulence theory in the Kolmogorov-Monin form is used. Unlike previous publications, we use an alternative closure scheme that seems more appropriate. A version is also proposed for generalizing the model to the case where heavy admixture particles (spray droplets) make a dominant contribution to the average density of a medium. This model allows a general analytical solution that, in principle, describes non-linear effects such as a decrease in the effective friction and “self-closure” of the heavy admixture in the near-surface layer because of turbulence suppression due to the strengthening of stratification stability. As the current data show, however, the intensity of spray production is probably insufficient to explain the recently discovered phenomenon of the aerodynamic-drag decrease (saturation) in storm winds.     

青岛沿海复杂地形低空风场、湍流特征与大气污染的关系

本文根据青岛台东区低空气象探测资料和主要大气污染物浓度资料,首次探讨青岛沿海复杂地形的低空风场、湍流特征与大气污染的关系.结果发现,冬季盛行风在低空复杂地形下易产生与上空完全相反的回流,使得部分污染物在回流区内往返积累;夏季存在海陆风环流,海风入侵高度约300m,且易与低空风向的回流相混合,加剧大气污染.该区的湍流较强,能较好地扩散大气污染物,各种扩散参数比国标高.最后提出治理建议.     

Simulation model of SAR remote sensing of turbulent wake of semi-elliptical submerged body

1 IntroductionThe study of SAR remote sensing of surface wake of a semi-elliptical submerged body is of great importance actually in the ocean. The dynamics and the SAR remote sensing mechanism of this wake are very complicated. Numerous researches (Bergmann et al., 1958; Miles, 1968a,b; Huppert and Miles, 1969; Bon-neton et al., 1993) indicate that in the ocean the imagery and dynamics of this wake are quite different when a semi-elliptical submerged body moves horizontally at high speed …     

Three dimensional modal model of wind induced flow in a sea region

The solution of the linear three dimensional hydrodynamic equations describing wind induced flow in a sea region is developed using the Galerkin method through the vertical. A basis set of B-splines is shown to have some computational advantages over a set of eigenfunctions (vertical modes). However, a basis set of modes leads to a system of essentially uncoupled equations and current profiles can be interpreted in terms of vertical modes.The influence of wind induced surface turbulence and turbulence at depth due to tidal motion upon current profiles in both deep (260 m) and shallow (35 m) sea regions is examined. The variation in the angle between surface current and surface wind for different viscosity profiles, and the effect of bottom friction upon it is considered.The magnitude and direction of the surface current is significantly influenced by surface eddy viscosity. However, viscosity at depth due to tidal motion also has an important effect upon the surface current.The time evolution of current structure following the sudden onset of a wind is examined using the modal model. Calculations show that the rate of damping of the internal modes is inversely proportional to the square of the depth. Consequently wind induced current structure takes longer to reach a steady state in a deep sea region than a shallow area.The influence of sea surface elevation gradients in determining the direction of surface current is also considered.