The Cryosphere www.the-cryosphere.net 1994-0416 1994-0424 4 3 2010 10.5194/tc-4-325-2010 http://www.the-cryosphere.net/4/325/2010/ http://www.the-cryosphere.net/4/325/2010/tc-4-325-2010.html http://www.the-cryosphere.net/4/325/2010/tc-4-325-2010.pdf 325 331 2010-09-02 Local scaling characteristics of Antarctic surface layer turbulence S. Basu sukanta_basu@ncsu.edu A. Ruiz-Columbié J. A. Phillipson S. Harshan Atmospheric Science Group, Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA now at: Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA now at: National Weather Service, St. Louis, Missouri, USA now at: Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 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. 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