In-situ measurement of dust devil activity at La Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, USA

TitleIn-situ measurement of dust devil activity at La Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico, USA
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsLorenz RD, Neakrase LD, Anderson JP
JournalAeolian Research
Pagination1-12
Accession NumberJRN54169
ARIS Log Number318610
Keywordsdust devils, meteorology, power law, vortex structure
Abstract

We document observations of dust devil vortices using a linear array of 10 miniature pressure- and sunlight-logging stations in summer 2013 at La Jornada Experimental Range in the southwestern USA. These data provide a census of vortex and dust-devil activity at this site. The simultaneous spatially-distributed measurements resolve the horizontal pressure structure of several dust devil encounters, and the data can be fit well with an analytic model, giving independent measures of vortex size and intensity.

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DOI10.1016/j.aeolia.2015.01.012