Revisiting and revising Tatarskii's formulation for the temperature structure parameter ($C_T^2$) in atmospheric flows

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit a well-known formulation of temperature structure parameter ($C_T^2$), originally proposed by V.~I.~Tatarskii. We point out its limitations and propose a revised formulation based on turbulence variance and flux budget equations. Our formulation includes a novel physically-based outer length scale which can be estimated from routine meteorological data.