Revisiting and revising Tatarskii’s formulation for the temperature structure parameter ($$C_T^2$$) in atmospheric flows

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit a well-known formulation of temperature structure parameter ( $$C_T^2$$ C T 2 ), originally proposed by V. I. Tatarskii. We point out its limitations and propose a revised formulation based on turbulence variance and flux budget equations. Our formulation includes a novel physically-based outer length scale which can be estimated from routine meteorological data.

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