Scintillometric measurements of daytime atmospheric turbulent heat and momentum fluxes and their application to atmospheric stability evaluation

Surface layer scintillometry for estimating the sensible heat flux component of the surface energy balance

“…Scintillation in science is usually treated as a disturbance, especially in optical communications and astronomical observations (Tatarskii 12 cited by Tatarskii 27,28 ), but it has also been recognised that scintillation can be used to characterise atmospheric turbulence 29 and to measure cross-wind. 28 An important mechanism that influences the propagation of electromagnetic radiation, as mentioned above, is due to the small fluctuations of the refractive index of air stemming from air temperature-induced fluctuations.…”