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Scale-Dependent Turbulent Dynamics andPhase-Space Behavior of the Stable AtmosphericBoundary Layer

Carbone, Francesco; Alberti, Tommaso; Sorriso-Valvo, Luca; Telloni, Daniele; Sprovieri, Francesca; Pirrone, Nicola

The structure of turbulent dynamics in a stable atmospheric boundary layer was studied by means of a phase-space description. Data from the CASES-99 experiment, decomposed in local modes (with increasing time scale) using empirical mode decomposition, were analyzed in order to extract the proper time lag and the embedding dimension of the phase-space manifold, and subsequently to estimate their scale-dependent correlation dimension. Results show that the dynamics are low-dimensional and anisotropic for a large scale, where the flow is dominated by the bulk motion. Then, they become progressively more high-dimensional while transiting into the inertial sub-range. Finally, they reach three-dimensionality in the range of scales compatible with the center of the inertial sub-range, where the phase-space-filling turbulent fluctuations dominate the dynamics.

ID 454706
DOI 10.3390/ATMOS11040428
PRODUCT TYPE Journal Article
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