Ensemble-Averaging Resolves Rapid Atmospheric Response to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse [Rapid Resolution of the Atmospheric Response to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse]

Higgins, Chad William; Drake, Stephen A.; Kelley, Jason; Oldroyd, Holly J.; Jensen, Derek D.; Wharton, Sonia

doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00198

Title: Ensemble-Averaging Resolves Rapid Atmospheric Response to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse [Rapid Resolution of the Atmospheric Response to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse]

Journal Article · Fri Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Frontiers in Earth Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00198· OSTI ID:1557929

Higgins, Chad William ^[1]; Drake, Stephen A. ^[2]; Kelley, Jason ^[3]; Oldroyd, Holly J. ^[4]; Jensen, Derek D. ^[5]; Wharton, Sonia ^[5]

Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID (United States)
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Rapid changes in solar radiative forcing influence heat, scalar and momentum fluxes and thereby shift the trajectory of near-surface atmospheric transitions. Surface fluxes are difficult to obtain during atmospheric transitions by either bulk or eddy-covariance methods because both techniques assume quasi-stationarity in an atmospheric state and require sufficiently long blocks of data, typically on the order of 10–30 min, to obtain statistically significant results. These computational requirements limit the temporal resolution of atmospheric processes that researchers can examine using traditional measurement techniques. In this paper, we present a novel observational approach to calculate surface fluxes at sub-minute temporal resolutions.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1557929

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-763519; 953348

Journal Information:: Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol. 7, Issue na; ISSN 2296-6463

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