In order to study the turbulent fluctuations in both temperature and humidity in the atmospheric surface layer the authors have constructed dry-and wet-bulb copper-constantan thermocouples of fine scales. The diameter of the dry-bulb portion is 0.2mm and the length is 5mm, and in order to increase the sensibility of the wet-bulb thermocouple three couples are connected in series within a narrow space. The sensibility characteristics of the apparatus have been checked and it has been found that fluctuations of periods more than 2 seconds can be recorded faithfully.
The observations of these fluctuations were carried out over a flat bare soil at the height of 1.5m under conditions of fairly calm winter night and morning, in which the vertical distributions of mean wind velocity, air temperature and humidity were obtained simultaneously. The averaging time for computation of the intensity and the Eulerian correlation coefficients
R(t) regarding both fluctuations are equally chosen as 100 seconds taking the equivalent passage-time
Tx(=Z/U, where
Z is the height and
U the mean wind velocity) into account, since the authors use to choose 100
Tz as an appropriate averaging time. The intensities ‹θ
2›
1/2 and ‹e
2›
1/2 of fluctuations in temperature and humidity are respectively compared with the friction temperature Θ* and friction humidity
E* which are calculated from mean value profiles as shown in Table 1. The characteristic scales of both fluctuations are assumed to be obtainable from the characteristic time scales
Tθ and
Tθ in the Eulerian correlation functions such as R
θ(t)=1-(t/T
θ)
m and R
e(t)=1-(t/T
e)
n. Computed results seem to indicate that both
m and
n are close to 4/3 and that
Tθ and
Te are about 3-4 times
Tz, the equivalent passagetime. These results are, however, not so much confirmative, since the sensibility of the instrument isnot sufficiently good.
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