Measurements of turbulence at stratocumulus top etc15 Tracking Number 389Presentation: Session: Atmospheric turbulence 3 Room: Room C Session start: 10:30 Wed 26 Aug 2015 Szymon P. Malinowski malina@fuw.edu.pl Affifliation: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Imai Jen-La Plante imai@igf.fuw.edu.pl Affifliation: Katarzyna Karpińska karpinska@igf.fuw.edu.pl Affifliation: Herman Gerber hgerber6@comcast.net Affifliation: Djamal Khelif djamalk@gmail.com Affifliation: Topics: - Atmospheric turbulence, - Turbulence in multiphase and non-Newtonian flows Abstract: Using $\sim$1m resolution airborne data from research flights we divide stratocumulus top region into sublayers and characterize properties of turbulence in each sublayer. Results indicate, that there are no clear differences of turbulence properties between thermodynamically different "calassical" and "non-classical" stratocumulus regimes, but there are clear signs of turbulence ainsotropy in stably stratified sublayers in the cloud top region. |