Abstract
A case study is performed to investigate the behavior of turbulent intermittency in the Taklimakan Desert using an intuitive, direct, and adaptive method, the arbitrary-order Hilbert spectral analysis (arbitrary-order HSA). Decomposed modes from the vertical wind speed series confirm the dyadic filter-bank essence of the empirical mode decomposition processes. Due to the larger eddies in the CBL, higher energy modes occur during the day. The second-order Hilbert spectra $${\mathcal{L}}_{2} (\omega )$$ delineate the spectral gap separating fine-scale turbulence from large-scale motions. Both the values of kurtosis and the Hilbert-based scaling exponent $$\xi \left( q \right)$$ reveal that the turbulence intermittency at night is much stronger than that during the day, and the stronger intermittency is associated with more stable stratification under clear-sky conditions. This study fills the gap in the characteristics of turbulence intermittency in the Taklimakan Desert area using a relatively new method.
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