A scale-wise analysis of intermittent momentum transport in dense canopy flows

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

Abstract: We investigate the intermittent dynamics of momentum transport and its underlying time scales in the near-wall region of the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer in the presence of a vegetation canopy. This is achieved through an empirical analysis of the persistence time scales (periods between successive zero-crossings) of momentum flux events, and their connection to the ejection-sweep cycle. Using high-frequency measurements from the GoAmazon campaign, spanning multiple heights within and above a dense canopy, the analysis suggests that when the persistence time scales (

t_{p}

) of momentum flux events from four different quadrants are separately normalized by

G a m m a_{w}

(integral time scale of the vertical velocity), their distributions (

P (t_{p} / G a m m a_{w})

) remain height-invariant. This result points to a persistent memory imposed by canopy-induced coherent structures, and to their role as an efficient momentum transport mechanism between the canopy airspace and the region immediately above. Moreover,

P (t_{p} / G a m m a_{w})

exhibits a power-law scaling at times

t_{p} < G a m m a_{w}

with an exponential tail appearing for

t_{p} g e q G a m m a_{w}

. By separating the flux events based on

t_{p}

, we discover that around 80% of the momentum is transported through the long-lived events (

t_{p} g e q G a m m a_{w}

) at heights immediately above the canopy while the short-lived ones (

t_{p} < G a m m a_{w}

) only contribute marginally (

a p p r o x

20%). To explain the role of instantaneous flux amplitudes towards momentum transport, we compare the measurements with a newly-developed surrogate data and establish that the range of time scales involved with amplitude variations in the fluxes tend to increase as one transitions from within to above the canopy.

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