A climatology of atmospheric wavenumber spectra of wind and temperature observed by commercial aircraft.

Abstract

Atmospheric wavenumber spectra of wind and temperature have been obtained from over 6000 commercial aircraft flights made during the Global Atmospheric Sampling Program. Temperature and velocity spectra are approximately the same shape over the range of wavelengths 2.6 to 104 km. Spectral slopes are close to - 5/3 in the range 2.6 to 300-400 km and are independent of latitude, season and location in the troposphere or stratosphere. -from Authors