Open AccessPhenomena connected with turbulence in the lower atmosphere
Author(s) -
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Publication year - 1918
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1918.0002
Subject(s) - atmosphere (unit) , turbulence , eddy , momentum (technical analysis) , mechanics , object (grammar) , physics , meteorology , environmental science , statistical physics , atmospheric sciences , computer science , economics , finance , artificial intelligence
The object of the present paper is to bring together some of the meteorological phenomena which depend on the turbulence of the lower atmosphere, to show how they depend on one another, and to demonstrate some numerical relationships which exist between them. The transference of heat, water vapour and momentum by means of eddies has been discussed by the present writer in a previous paper. It was shown there that the effect of turbulent motion on the atmosphere is to endow it with a power of transmitting heat in much the same way as a solid possessing a large coefficient of conductivity.