Turbulent Characteristics of Atmospheric Boundary Layer under Complex Underlying Using Discrete Orthogonal Wavelet Transform
LUO Tao;YUAN Ren-min;WU Xiao-qing;DENG Shu-mei
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School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;2. Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Academia Sinica, Hefei 230031, China;3. Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
It is well known that wavelet transforms have good time-frequency localization, which makes the transforms be especially suitable for analyzing non-stationary signals, like turbulent signals. In this paper, discrete orthogonal wavelet transform is applied to the 35 m tower measured data, and the isotropy coefficient(ISO) and the wavelet power spectrum are computed using the wavelet coefficients, to study the turbulent characteristics of atmospheric boundary layer over complex underlying. ISO could describe the isotropy characteristic of real atmosphere at different scales well. Based on the distribution of ISO, by a threshold of ISO(here, the threshold is 0.7), we obtained the separation scale of isotropy small eddies(names as ISO0.7). The result shows that the underlying characteristics have a large impact on ISO0.7, when wind blows from different underlyings, the mean ISO0.7 scale varies very obvoius. The result also reveals that the turbulent intensity and stability have some impaction too. The study on wavelet power spectrum shows, the high-frequency segment of wavelet power spectrum has a two-segment tendency beside the frequency fms which corresponds to the separation scale: The segment with frequency higher than fms has a scaling exponent(as)close to-5/3, which means, in this smalleddy frequency range, the turbulence is closely isotropic;and the segment with frequency lower than fms, has a scaling exponent(al)deviating from-5/3, which means, in this frequency range, the turbulence is closely anisotropic. And when wind blows from land and the turbulent intensity is weak, the power spectrum evidently has this two-segment-tendency and the al is very close to-1. So it reveals the impaction of underlying. And the different processes of wind direction change have very different impactions.