Articles | Volume 4, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-4-325-2010
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Local scaling characteristics of Antarctic surface layer turbulence
Abstract. Over the past years, several studies have validated Nieuwstadt's local scaling hypothesis by utilizing turbulence observations from the mid-latitude, nocturnal stable boundary layers. In this work, we probe into the local scaling characteristics of polar, long-lived stable boundary layers by analyzing turbulence data from the South Pole region of the antarctic plateau.