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Proceedings with Extended Abstracts (single PDF file) - Radio ...

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Figure 1: Data from the MST radar at Aberystwyth for 18 th July 2001.Turbulent mixing across a vertical gradient of a conservative passive tracer, such as potentialtemperature or ozone concentration, will generate irregularities of that tracer over acontinuous range of scale sizes. The magnitude of the irregularities will depend on both theinitial vertical gradient of the tracer and on the strength of the turbulence (Ottersten, 1969).However, if turbulent activity continues for a sufficient length of time, the distribution of thetracer is expected to become more homogeneous across the depth of layer, <strong>with</strong> sharp tracergradients occurring at the layer boundaries (Browning and Watkins, 1970). As might47

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