Study on Horizontal Relative Diffusion in the Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

Zheng Yi

doi:10.1007/s00376-000-0046-1

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Study on Horizontal Relative Diffusion in the Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

Zheng Yi

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State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry; Institute of Atmospheric Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100029

Zheng Yi

doi: 10.1007/s00376-000-0046-1

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The behaviour of relative diffusion theory and Gifford’s random-force theory for long-range atmospheric diffusion is examined. When a puff scale is smaller than the Lagrangian length scale, 2KTL, an accelerative relative diffusion region exists, i.e., σy∝t3/2. While the puff diffusion enters a two-dimensional turbulence region, in which the diffusion scale is larger than 500 km, or time scale is larger than 1 day, divergence and convergence are main cause of horizontal diffusion. Between the two above-mentioned regimes, diffusion deviation is given byσy=2KTL. The large-scale horizontal relative diffusion parameters were obtained by analyzing the data of radioactive cloud width collected in air nuclear tests.
- Tropospheric and lower stratospheric diffusion,
- Relative diffusion,
- Large scale turbulence,
- Nuclear explosion clouds
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Manuscript received: 10 January 2000

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Study on Horizontal Relative Diffusion in the Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

Zheng Yi

1. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry; Institute of Atmospheric Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100029

Manuscript received: 2000-01-10
Manuscript revised: 2000-01-10

Abstract: The behaviour of relative diffusion theory and Gifford’s random-force theory for long-range atmospheric diffusion is examined. When a puff scale is smaller than the Lagrangian length scale, 2KTL, an accelerative relative diffusion region exists, i.e., σy∝t3/2. While the puff diffusion enters a two-dimensional turbulence region, in which the diffusion scale is larger than 500 km, or time scale is larger than 1 day, divergence and convergence are main cause of horizontal diffusion. Between the two above-mentioned regimes, diffusion deviation is given byσy=2KTL. The large-scale horizontal relative diffusion parameters were obtained by analyzing the data of radioactive cloud width collected in air nuclear tests.

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