Spectral computations

After the initial round of data QA/QC, there are three stages to estimating the turbulent dissipation rate:

• Compute the spectra with sufficient degrees of freedom to get a statistically robust [math]\displaystyle{ \varepsilon }[/math]
• Conduct further QA/QC specific to spectral analysis
• Estimate the mean flow past the sensor and if applicable the surface wave contributions to choose the appropriate inertial subrange model for spectral fitting.