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Some of the larger eddies in a turbulent region can be coherent structures that turbulently advect air parcels across large vertical distances before smaller eddies mix the parcels with the environment. Such a process is nonlocal rather than diffusive. Transilient turbulence theory, named after a Latin word maaning “jump over”, provides a framework for considering the ensemble-averaged effect of many eddies of different sizes on the net nonlocal mixing in the vertical. Nonlocal turbulence statistics can then be examinated, and nonlocal first-order closure can be formulated.
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Stull, R.B. Review of non-local mixing in turbulent atmospheres: Transilient turbulence theory. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 62, 21–96 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00705546
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