Velocity and temperature derivatives in high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows in the atmospheric surface layer. Part 2. Accelerations and related matters

We report the first results of an experiment, in which explicit information on all velocity derivatives (the nine spatial derivatives, ∂ u i ∂ x j , and the three temporal derivatives, ∂ u i /∂ t ) along with the three components of velocity fluctuations at a Reynolds number as high as Re λ~10 4 is obtained. No use of the Taylor hypothesis was made, and this allowed us to obtain a variety of results concerning acceleration and its different Eulerian components along with vorticity, strain and other small-scale quantities. The field experiments were performed at five heights between 0.8 and 10m above the ground. The report consists of three parts. Part 1 is devoted to the description of facilities, methods and some general results. Part 2 concerns accelerations and related matters. Part 3 is devoted to the issues concerning temperature with the emphasis on joint statistics of temperature and velocity derivatives.