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An estimate of the relative magnitude of small‐scale tracer fluxes
Author(s) -
Bacmeister Julio T.,
Schoeberl Mark R.,
Loewenstein Max,
Podolske Jim R.,
Strahan Susan E.,
Chan K. Roland
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/92gl01039
Subject(s) - tracer , flux (metallurgy) , magnitude (astronomy) , scale (ratio) , atmospheric sciences , environmental science , polar , power law , spectral line , variation (astronomy) , physics , meteorology , computational physics , astrophysics , nuclear physics , chemistry , statistics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , organic chemistry
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.