Semiparametric and semi-nonparametric estimates of the kinetic energy in the atmospheric boundary layer from minisodar measurements

Abstract

Based on the semiparametric and semi-nonparametric algorithms developed by the authors, the kinetic energies of outliers and ordered air motion are estimated by post-processing of minisodar measurements of 3D wind vector and its 3D variance in the lower 200-meter layer of the atmosphere. A nonmonotonic increase in the kinetic energy of the outliers with sounding altitude is established, which can be explained by the nonmonotonic increase of the turbulent kinetic energy of local atmospheric vortices.