This simulation represents a vertical cross section of an anisotropic turbulent flow with parameters close to the measured values for Earth's atmosphere.
The toggle activates a band-pass filter that helps visualize the changing aspect ratios. Larger, flatter circulations continually deform into more circular circulations as the observation scale is decreased.
Despite being proposed 40 years ago, our study1 was the first independent test of this theory using global radiosonde data.