DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF TURBULENT HEAT FLOW IN THE SURFACE LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE

The turbulent heat flow plays an important role in the thermal balance of the surface layer atmosphere and the THF (Turbulent Heat Flow) and is one of least studied components of the thermal balance, which is due to a series of difficulties in methods, with which one is confronted in such measurements. Up to the present time the importance of THF has been defined generally by indirect methods, which do not give sufficiently exact results. The majority of calculation formulae have been determined with an accuracy up to constant coefficients or universal functions, the finding of which is possible only from experimental data on direct measurements of the THF. Trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Doklady, v125 n6 p1242-1245, 24 Apr 1959.