Improving measurement technology for the design of sustainable cities

ER Pardyjak, R Stoll - Measurement Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review identifies and discusses measurement technology gaps that are currently
preventing major science leaps from being realized in the study of urban environmental …

Fine-scale turbulent bursts in stable atmospheric boundary layer in complex terrain

E Kit, CM Hocut, D Liberzon… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is usually measured using sonic
anemometers (sonics), but coarse spatial (–0.4 m) scales that are not captured by sonics …

Next generation combined sonic-hotfilm anemometer: wind alignment and automated calibration procedure using deep learning

RH Goldshmid, E Winiarska, D Liberzon - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
The study of naturally occurring turbulent flows requires the ability to collect empirical data
down to the fine scales. While hotwire anemometry offers such ability, the open field studies …

Atmospheric small-scale turbulence from three-dimensional hot-film data

LS Freire, M Chamecki, EG Patton - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2023 - Springer
The behavior of small-scale atmospheric turbulence is investigated using the three-
dimensional Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study hot-film data. The analysis relies on …

Small-scale anisotropy in stably stratified turbulence; Inferences based on katabatic flows

E Kit, HJS Fernando - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
The focus of the current study is on the anisotropy of stably stratified turbulence that is not
only limited to large scales and an inertial subrange but also penetrates to small-scale …

Inertial range skewness of the longitudinal velocity derivative in locally isotropic turbulence

S Sukoriansky, E Kit, E Zemach, S Midya… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Longitudinal velocity-derivative skewness S 0 is directly proportional to the rate of enstrophy
generation and hence is a key parameter for characterizing small-scale turbulence …

Method of directional spectrum estimation accounting for the ambient shearing currents

R Soffer, E Kit, Y Toledo - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Realistic currents in seas and oceans are almost always changing in depth thus indicative
on the presence of shear in the profile of the mean ambient flow. However, analysis …

Obtaining turbulence statistics of thermally driven anabatic flow by sonic-hot-film combo anemometer

R Hilel Goldshmid, D Liberzon - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - Springer
Achieving a better understanding of atmospheric boundary layer flows, and of slope flows in
particular, is of paramount importance for the research of climate processes and production …

Power-law scaling of turbulence cospectra for the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer

Y Cheng, Q Li, A Grachev, S Argentini… - Boundary-Layer …, 2020 - Springer
Surface turbulent fluxes provide a key boundary condition for the prediction of weather,
hydrology, and atmospheric carbon dioxide. The turbulence cospectrum is assumed to …

On the Power-law Scaling of Turbulence Cospectra Part 1: Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Y Cheng, Q Li, A Grachev, S Argentini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer are key input for the prediction of weather,
hydrology, and carbon dioxide concentration. In numerical modelling of turbulent fluxes, a …