Atmospheric Turbulence Decay During the Solar Total Eclipse of 11 August 1999 |
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Authors: | Domenico Anfossi Guy Schayes Gervasio Degrazia Antonio Goulart |
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Institution: | (1) CNR – Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima, Torino, Italy;(2) UCL – Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;(3) Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Departamento de Física, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil;(4) URI – Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra, Santo Ângelo, Brazil |
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Abstract: | The studies of turbulence decay were based in the past on measurements carried out in neutrally stratified wind tunnels and, more recently, on large-eddy simulation runs. Here the atmospheric turbulence decay process during the solar total eclipse of 11 August 1999 is examined. Thus a rapid transition from convective boundary-layer turbulence to that of a neutral or slightly stable one is considered. A u-v-w propeller anemometer and a fast response temperature sensor located in northern France on top of a 9-m mast recorded the turbulence observations. The measurements, in terms of turbulent kinetic energy decay with time, were found to be in good agreement with those prescribed by a theoretical model of turbulence decay recently proposed. In particular, it was found that the exponent of the power law describing the decay process has the value -2. |
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Keywords: | Solar eclipse Turbulence decay Wind measurements |
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