Dispersion of Smoke Plumes from the Oil Fires of Kuwait

摘要

Measurements collected during the multiple passes of a research aircraft throughthe smoke plumes from the oil fires of Kuwait are used to determine the sizes and growth rates of those plumes, and to document some other influences on their motion and dispersion. The intensity and spectral distribution of turbulent fluctuations in the winds are also characterized, and these properties of the turbulence are used to determine the total variance, the variance on scales comparable to the size of the plume, and the integral length and time scales for the turbulence.