An estimate of the relative magnitude of small‐scale tracer fluxes

Julio T. Bacmeister; Mark R. Schoeberl; Max Loewenstein; Jim R. Podolske; Susan E. Strahan; K. Roland Chan

doi:10.1029/92GL01039

An estimate of the relative magnitude of small‐scale tracer fluxes

Julio T. Bacmeister
, Mark R. Schoeberl
, Max Loewenstein
, Jim R. Podolske
, Susan E. Strahan
, K. Roland Chan

Atmospheric Modeling and Predictability

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Ames Research Center

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Abstract

The wind and constituent measurements from the polar aircraft data are used to compute the flux spectra. Although there is variation from flight to flight, the flux spectra generally fit a −2 to −1.5 power law as expected theoretically. This result suggests that tracer fluxes from small scale features do not substantially contribute to the overall tracer budget relative to the fluxes from the larger scales.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1101-1104
Number of pages	4
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	19
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/92GL01039
State	Published - Jun 2 1992

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