Concentration pattern during turbulent dispersion

The inertial subrange of the atmospheric turbulence spectrum extends downward from some 25 m in linear size. Energy is supplied to large eddies and cascades down the size range. The physics implies a certain concentration pattern for material being dispersed. The concentration frequency distribution (for very many ‘equal’ samples) should be log-normal with invariant slope, independent even of sample size. Correlations should be invariant if time lag or distance is measured in units proportional to linear sample size. Even sources with different characteristics might produce similar features. Turbulent dispersion data with air ions as tracer provide a means for testing the theory. Digitized and statistically processed data from 4 instantaneous-source and 8 continuous-source experiments agree well with the theory. Two other experiments, where analog data only are available, also support the conclusions.