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The PDF of concentration fluctuations — Comments on YEE (1990) and YEE (1991)

The PDF of concentration fluctuations — Comments on YEE (1990) and YEE (1991) THE PDF OF CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS - COMMENTS ON YEE (1990) AND YEE (1991) (Correspondence) KENNETH R. MYLNE Meteorological Of/ice, Bracknell, U.K. (Received 26 February, 1992) 1. Introduction In recent years considerable efforts have been put into experimental studies of concentration fluctuations in dispersing plumes in the atmosphere. It is generally accepted that the most convenient statistical description of fluctuations is in the form of the probability density function (PDF) of concentration. Fluctuation sta- tistics are generally highly skewed, so that specification of the mean concentration (C) and standard deviation a, alone does not provide an adequate description. A number of standard forms of PDF have been proposed to describe concentration fluctuations, notably the log-normal, exponential and clipped normal distributions. Recent papers comparing these forms (Mylne and Mason, 1991; Dinar et al., 1988; Sawford, 1987) have suggested that the clipped-normal PDF provides the best agreement with measured fluctuations over a wide range of experimental con- ditions. This note is concerned with the conclusions of another recent paper, Yee (1990), which proposes an alternative - the g- and h-distribution. Yee claims that this function provides a superior fit to experimental data, especially in the extreme upper tails of the distribution. In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Boundary-Layer Meteorology Springer Journals

The PDF of concentration fluctuations — Comments on YEE (1990) and YEE (1991)

Mylne, Kenneth
Boundary-Layer Meteorology , Volume 61 (2) – Jul 19, 2005
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THE PDF OF CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS - COMMENTS ON YEE (1990) AND YEE (1991) (Correspondence) KENNETH R. MYLNE Meteorological Of/ice, Bracknell, U.K. (Received 26 February, 1992) 1. Introduction In recent years considerable efforts have been put into experimental studies of concentration fluctuations in dispersing plumes in the atmosphere. It is generally accepted that the most convenient statistical description of fluctuations is in the form of the probability density function (PDF) of concentration. Fluctuation sta- tistics are generally highly skewed, so that specification of the mean concentration (C) and standard deviation a, alone does not provide an adequate description. A number of standard forms of PDF have been proposed to describe concentration fluctuations, notably the log-normal, exponential and clipped normal distributions. Recent papers comparing these forms (Mylne and Mason, 1991; Dinar et al., 1988; Sawford, 1987) have suggested that the clipped-normal PDF provides the best agreement with measured fluctuations over a wide range of experimental con- ditions. This note is concerned with the conclusions of another recent paper, Yee (1990), which proposes an alternative - the g- and h-distribution. Yee claims that this function provides a superior fit to experimental data, especially in the extreme upper tails of the distribution. In

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