Vertical velocity variance

vertical velocity variance

The statistical spread, or mean-square deviation from the mean, of the vertical velocity; useful as a measure of turbulence intensity or gravity wave amplitude.

It is the vertical component of turbulence kinetic energy per unit mass. It determines the rate of vertical spread of pollutants.

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Often the greatest magnitude at a given point of any spatially and temporally varying physical quantity governed by a wave equation; can also mean the spatial part of a time-harmonic wave function.