Topic 17

17. Dissipation of atmospheric turbulence

Learning objectives

Explain why there isn’t more and more turbulence in the atmosphere if there’s a continual supply of kinetic / thermal energy.
Describe if there are limits to the scales of turbulent eddies in a system.
Understand how we graph the size and duration of eddies.

Online resources
Interactive applet to an external site demonstrating the basics of Fourier transform.