Abstract

Structure functions used in atmospheric optics remove means and regularize turbulence integrals. Recently, Yaglom extended this approach to generalized, self-similar processes with stationary increments of order n. We have applied this technique to a single microthermal probe carried by a balloon system. The higher order structure functions have completely removed non-turbulent low order trends in the data and provide a consistent set of higher order structure parameters along non-stationary, non-isotropic atmospheric paths. Other applications of this approach are possible.

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