J. Sun - Total and Kinetic Energy Conservation in Governing Turbulent Energy Transfers in the Stratified Atmospheric Boundary
Jielun Sun, NorthWest Research Associates (USA), jielun@nwra.com Thursday, May 28th (2026), 16:30 Paris Time, LMFL Abstract Puzzled by a number of observed disagreements between field observations in the atmospheric boundary layer and theoretical expectations based on the 1st law of thermodynamics, I have investigated a generalized thermal energy balance in the stratified atmosphere based on total and kinetic energy conservation. Because the 1st law is a special case of total energy conservation, the widely used thermal energy balance based on the 1st law is a special case of the generalized…
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