Ergodicity of turbulence measurements upon complex terrain in Loess Plateau

To display the distribution characteristics of turbulence eddy under condition of complex terrain in Loess Plateau, and to enhance the precision of turbulence measurements, the research of turbulence ergodicity is considered to be the prior section of the experiment. With the statistics of single-site turbulence measurements obtained in Baimiao Tableland, Ping Liang, Gan Su, analysis result shows that not only the turbulence with scale less than 10 min, which can easily satisfy the ergodicity, the tableland terrain can also be a major cause of the coherent structure of periodic, large-scale turbulence; compared to which for the turbulence above the flat underlying surface, the distribution of 10–40 min, large-scale turbulence in the tableland region tends to be more steady and, thus, can also satisfy the ergodicity easily. Under the condition of extremely unstable stratification, the wind is comparatively low in speed and features distinctly large-scale, periodical fluctuation, and with the trend of smooth increase in temperature, large-scale wind turbulence and temperature turbulence both tend to satisfy ergodicity. In comparison, under the condition of extremely stable stratification, the aperiodicity of large-scale wind turbulence and temperature turbulence caused by intermittency is comparatively strong, and the turbulence cannot satisfy ergodicity easily.