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The turbulent characteristics of the first 62 meters of the atmosphere over White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, have been intensively studied using data collected from an instrumented tower. It is demonstrated that important turbulence characteristics such as standard deviation of wind direction, longitudinal intensity of turbulence, and the ratio of the lateral intensity of turbulence to longitudinal intensity of turbulence are dependent upon the height of the wind measurement, the surface roughness, and the stability of the atmosphere. In particular, it is shown that the lateral intensity of turbulence is affected more by stability changes than by roughness or height of the measurement. The longitudinal intensity of turbulence, however, is affected by roughness and height of measurement as well as by the stability of the atmosphere. (Author)