Coastal Boundary Layer Characteristics of Wind, Turbulence, and Surface Roughness Parameter over the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, India

Table 1

Various relations among normalized standard deviations of vertical wind component to 𝑧/𝐿.

Unstable case (𝑧/𝐿 < 0)		Stable case (𝑧/𝐿 > 0)
Panofsky et al., 1977 [21]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.25+1−3𝐿^1/3	Krishnan and Kunhikrishnan, 2002 [22]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.371+0.2𝐿
Nair et al., 1990 [23]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.1+1−4𝐿^1/3	Ramana et al., 2004 [24]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.01+0.2𝐿
Krishnan and Kunhikrishnan, 2002 [22]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.37+1−3𝐿^1/3	Present data fit through power unity (for January)	𝜎𝑟𝑢∗𝑧=1.61+0.345𝐿, 𝑟=0.41
Ramana et al., 2004 [24]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.0+1−3𝐿^1/3	Power curve relation of the form 𝑦=𝑎+𝑏𝑥^𝑐 (for January)	𝜎𝑟𝑢∗𝑧=1.15+1.01𝐿^0.415, 𝑟=0.688
Present data fit through 1/3 power relation (for January)	𝜎𝑟𝑢∗𝑧=1.22+1−4.53𝐿^1/3, 𝑟=0.845	Pahlow et al., 2001 [25]	𝜎𝑤𝑢∗𝑧=1.10+0.90𝐿^0.6
Power curve relation of the form 𝑦=𝑎+𝑏𝑥^𝑐 (for January)	𝜎𝑟𝑢∗−𝑧=1.01+1.12𝐿^0.475, 𝑟=0.837