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One of the more intractable atmospheric problems is the measurement of turbulence in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere. Balloons and instrumented aircraft have partially investigated the lower stratosphere to 20 km (Kellogg 1956; Gifford 1957; Zimmerman 1965; Lilly et al, 1975; Zimmerman and Loving 1975). Radio meteor (Roper and Elford 1963; Roper 1966; Zimmerman 1973, 1974) have been utilized to determine some bulk turbulent viscosities and rates of dissipation in the altitude region 81 to 97 km. Chemical releases (Blamont and de Jager 1961; Zimmerman and Champion 1963; Justus 1969; Zimmerman and Trowbridge 1973) allowed us to determine turbulent diffusion rates and turbulent dissipation by both diffusion growth rates and turbulent spectra observed in the tracer chemicals.
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Zimmerman, S.P., Murphy, E.A. (1977). Stratospheric and Mesospheric Turbulence. In: Grandal, B., Holtet, J.A. (eds) Dynamical and Chemical Coupling Between the Neutral and Ionized Atmosphere. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1262-1_3
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