Spectral Maxima in a Perturbed Stable Boundary Layer (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Spectral Maxima in a Perturbed Stable Boundary Layer (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
Anno
  • 2001-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1007/s10546-008-9276-z (literal)
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  • Cava, D., Giostra U., Tagliazucca M. (2001)
    Spectral Maxima in a Perturbed Stable Boundary Layer
    in Boundary - layer meteorology
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  • Cava, D., Giostra U., Tagliazucca M. (literal)
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  • 421 (literal)
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  • 437 (literal)
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  • 100 (literal)
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  • ISI Web of Science (WOS) (literal)
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  • ISAC - CNR (Bologna, Lecce) Università di Urbino (literal)
Titolo
  • Spectral Maxima in a Perturbed Stable Boundary Layer (literal)
Abstract
  • Wind velocity data have been collected on Nansen Ice Sheet, Antarctica, close to the base of a steeply sloping glacier along which frequently flow katabatic winds. The aim of this study is to investigate how turbulent energy and momentum flux are perturbed by the flow interaction with topography and by the strong mechanical mixing produced by downslope flows. Spectral and cospectral analyses, performed on the wind velocity components, provide evidence that such a perturbation, at any stability, is restricted to frequencies lower than the inertial subrange. Longitudinal spectra display an energy increment, due to turbulence generated by topography and by mechanical forcing related to the katabatic wind structure. The energy, supplied by the topographic forcing, displaces the turbulent energy maximum toward lower frequencies. In near-neutral stratification the spectral maximum occurs at a reduced frequency, which seems to be consistent with the height of the steepest part of the slope, and seems to shift toward higher frequencies as a linear function of the local stability parameter, Ll . The parameterisation of the orographic perturbation by means of a similarity relationship allows us to scale u spectra in the same way as over uniform terrain. The scaled, perturbed spectra collapse onto a unique curve in the mid-frequency as well in the inertial subrange, while maxima are grouped in a cluster. Lateral and vertical velocity spectra exhibit shapes independent of stability, uggesting a topographic perturbation that is predominantly over stability effects. (literal)
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