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Summary A wind‐profiling Doppler radar equipped with a radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) may be used to estimate the vertical
profile of the vertical flux of heat in the atmosphere. Simultaneous measurements of the time‐varying temperature and vertical
air velocity are combined to give the convective heat flux using the eddy‐correlation method. The accuracy of the estimates
depends on the fundamental accuracy of the temperature and vertical velocity measurements. Also, in common with all eddy‐correlation
methods, uncertainties are introduced by the need to define a suitable averaging time and to remove trends. A problem unique
to RASS is the possible presence of ground and intermittent clutter at close ranges, which can cause errors in the vertical
air velocity measurements. These considerations are discussed with particular reference to observations using a UHF radar
wind profiler situated in an urban environment, where clutter is a serious problem.
A Rank‐Order Signal Processing Algorithm (ROSPA) for recognizing and eliminating outliers in the vertical velocity, is introduced.
It is explained how ROSPA uses both a minimum filter and a median filter on the velocity data. It is shown, using a comparison
with nearly clutter free data from a rural site, that the filtering substantially improves the quality of the noisy urban
data. The paper then compares RASS‐measured urban and rural heat flux profiles, along with the heat flux profile measured
by an instrumented airplane. It is concluded that the main obstacles to RASS heat flux measurements are the effects of winds
and turbulence in the boundary layer, rather than clutter.
Received September 24, 1998 Revised January 27, 1999 相似文献
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Summary ?This paper describes the configuration of measurement systems operated continuously at the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg
with the aim of constructing combined profiles of wind and temperature – so-called composite profiles – covering the boundary
layer with high temporal and vertical resolution. This is required for the forcing of a micro-α-scale model in order to simulate
the atmospheric boundary layer structure over a heterogeneous landscape during the LITFASS-98 experiment. The problems of
combining measurements of different remote sensing and in-situ systems are briefly discussed. Although the measuring range
of individual remote sensing systems is variable, the height coverage of wind and temperature profile measurements by sodar/RASS
and two wind profiler radar/RASS complement each other very well. Using a simple merging procedure composite wind and temperature
profiles have been synthesized based on radiosonde, windprofiler/RASS, sodar/RASS and tower measurements. Time-height cross
sections of hourly composite profiles show considerably more details of the boundary layer structure than simple radiosonde
interpolation due to the higher sampling frequency, higher vertical resolution and increased accuracy at the lower levels.
Finally some qualifications of the formulated algorithm are suggested for future application.
Received June 18, 2001; revised May 30, 2002; accepted June 6, 2002 相似文献
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A radio acoustic sounding system (RASS), operating at an acoustic frequency ƒ 360 Hz, proved to be capable of measuring the vertical temperature profile in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) with an accuracy and vertical resolution comparable to those of traditional apparatus (radiothermosondes borne by tethered or disposable balloons, thermosondes borne by aircraft and so on, yet combined with the advantages typical of remote sensing techniques.Since summer 1983 the system has been running in a completely automatic way by means of a microprocessor and can provide the average thermal profile at preset time intervals (typically 0.5 h). (Previously, the acoustic sounding frequency affording the fundamental condition of Bragg resonance between acoustic and radio wavelengths had to be identified by an operator).The maximum range of measurement has been 1000 m in 50% of cases. Temperature measurements are reliable from an altitude of a few tens of meters.Results for different thermodynamic stability conditions, together with good performances achieved in adverse atmospheric conditions such as strong wind, snow, rain, etc., are presented here.Such results indicate the usefulness of the automatic RASS as a tool for meteorological purposes and for the application of air pollution control strategies.Maximum sounding range attained for different areas of the acoustic antenna is also analysed in order to evaluate the performance of an automatic mobile RASS. 相似文献
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Stefan Emeis Klaus Sch?fer Christoph Münkel Roman Friedl Peter Suppan 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,143(1):25-35
Since 2006 different remote monitoring methods for determining mixing-layer height have been operated in parallel in Augsburg
(Germany). One method is based on the operation of eye-safe commercial mini-lidar systems (ceilometers). The optical backscatter
intensities recorded with ceilometers provide information about the range-dependent aerosol concentration; gradient minima
within this profile mark the tops of mixed layers. Special software for these ceilometers provides routine retrievals of lower
atmospheric layering. A second method, based on sodar observations, detects the height of a turbulent layer characterized
by high acoustic backscatter intensities due to thermal fluctuations and a high variance of the vertical velocity component.
This information is extended by measurements with a radio-acoustic sounding system (RASS) that directly provides the vertical
temperature profile from the detection of acoustic signal propagation and thus temperature inversions that mark atmospheric
layers. Ceilometer backscatter information is evaluated by comparison with parallel measurements. Data are presented from
2 years of combined ceilometer and RASS measurements at the same site and from comparison with a nearby (60 km) radiosonde
for larger-scale humidity information. This evaluation is designed to ensure mixing-layer height monitoring from ceilometer
data more reliable. 相似文献
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D. Engelbart H. Steinhagen U. Görsdorf J. Neisser H. J. Kirtzel G. Peters 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》1999,71(1-2):61-68
Summary At a special measuring site for boundary-layer studies as well as land-surface processes the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg
of the German Weather Service (DWD) has recently put into operation a newly-desi gned phased-array SODAR/RASS, which has been
developed by METEK on behalf of the DWD. This system provides the vertical profiles of the three-di mensional wind vector
in the boundary layer on an operational basis and is furthermore suitable for getting information on the profile of virtual
temperature up to about 400 m in height based on the addition of RASS components. The following paper describes both the technique
of this SODAR/RASS and the various modes of operation as well as the different options in managing the system. First evaluations
on the data availability concerning the maximum height coverage will give an impression on the system’s capabilities. Finally,
the accuracy of the derived profiles of winds and temperature will be investigated by means of comparisons of the SODAR/RASS
data with measurements of a six-sonde tethered-balloon system as well as meteorological data of a 99 m tower in the vicinity
of the system.
Received November 27, 1998 Revised April 9, 1999 相似文献
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Summary The relative strength of the stabilizing effect of buoyancy and the destabilizing effect of velocity shear in a stratified shear flow, such as a stable atmospheric boundary layer, is measured by the gradient Richardson number, Rig. The boundary layer static stability, as described by the buoyancy frequency, N, can be calculated from the virtual potential temperature gradient derived from RASS temperature profiles. The mean wind profiles from a sodar can be used to calculate the mean vertical velocity shear. In combination these profilers are potentially a powerful tool for the remotely sensing the dynamic stability of the boundary layer. However, experience shows that the combinations of two experimentally derived quantities, like N and shear, may give highly variable results. On the other hand, a simple sensitivity analysis shows that reasonable estimates of Rig are achievable over a range of conditions in the stable nocturnal boundary layer. To test this conclusion, high spatial and temporal resolution temperature and velocity soundings were obtained above 50m in the stable nocturnal boundary layer using a 920MHz continuous wave Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) and 1.875kHz and 5.00kHz Doppler sodars. Examples of the evolution of Rig are presented from 24 hours of observations of the boundary layer in Canberra, on the tablelands in south- eastern Australia. Most of the boundary layer had Rig between 0.1 and 1. Thus, it was marginally dynamically stable, even with the gradient Richardson number calculated from finite differences over a vertical interval of 68m. A comparison of the results from the two sodars showed that the velocity shear increased significantly when the vertical differencing interval was decreased from 68m to 20m. 相似文献
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大气廓线综合探测系统及其应用技术 总被引：6，自引：6，他引：6
介绍了大气廓线综合探测系统——风廓线仪与RASS雷达的工作原理，并以具体实例来说明这种探测技术在国外高空探测领域中的广泛应用。它可以被用来推算湿度廓线，探测锋的热动力结构与垂直风结构，诊断热带地区行星边界层和降雨云系统。通过对中日科技人员2002年夏季在安徽省肥西县进行的中尺度天气观测试验资料分析，阐述了用风廓线仪和RASS雷达资料反演0．2～2．2km高度范围内湿度廓线的方法。 相似文献
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风廓线雷达对塔克拉玛干沙漠晴天边界层的探测分析 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
利用塔克拉玛干沙漠大气环境观测试验站2010年8和10月边界层风廓线雷达资料,分析了沙漠晴天边界层湍流、大气温度、水平风速风向以及垂直速度的发展演变特征和日变化规律。研究表明：（1）大气折射率结构常数（C_n~2）能较好地反映晴空湍流对电磁波的后向散射能力,可以详细刻画湍流发展旺盛区域的高度、强度及其演变特征;沙漠夏季白天湍流发展剧烈,旺盛区域顶部可达4000 m高度左右。（2）RASS系统对沙漠边界层大气温度的探测具有较好的可信度,其近地边界层温度符合一般的日变化规律,昼夜温差显著,白天高温维持时间长,升温过程相对滞后于近地表气温。（3）风廓线雷达对大气风场的探测结果与地面风速风向一致,沙漠晴天主要受东风和东北风控制,风速较小,平均在2.0～6.0 m·s~（-1）范围变化。（4）沙漠腹地大气垂直速度变化符合静力平衡理论,铅直方向运动很弱,一般在-1.0～1.0 m·s~（-1）范围波动。 相似文献
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Summary ?Progress in technology as well as signal processing has promoted Wind Profiler Radar (WPR) or sodar with RASS additions to become standard tools in profiling of the atmospheric boundary layer. Apart from
these instruments’ basic abilities in profiling mean winds and temperature, this paper will give an emphasis on the profiling
of ABL height as well as the turbulent fluxes of sensible heat and momentum both, with respect to methods as well as with
respect to realization. The special focus will thereby be laid on the demands for vertical profiling, which were defined within
the LITFASS-project of the German Meteorological Service. In the frame of this project, some special measuring campaigns have
been performed where remote-sensing systems were used to assess their abilities in profiling ABL parameters. On the base of
some case studies from these campaigns comparisons are shown, where results from sodar/RASS and WPR/RASS measurements are
compared to measurements from airborne sensor systems and results from numerical models. Regarding turbulent heat fluxes,
we found excellent agreement for remotely-sensed flux profiles from WPR/RASS with both, numerical models and airborne in-situ
measurements. However, as the inherent errors of the remotely-sensed fluxes are in the order of ± 20 ⋯ 30 W/m2 typically, current signal processing does not allow to interpret small-scale vertical structures in the profiles with respect
to surface inhomogeneities yet.
Received June 16, 2001; revised February 20, 2002; accepted May 30, 2002 相似文献
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Large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow above and within a forest 总被引：10，自引：22，他引：10
A large-eddy simulation has been performed of an atmospheric surface layer in which the lower third of the domain is occupied by a drag layer and heat sources to represent a forest. Subgridscale processes are treated using second-order closure techniques. Lateral boundaries are periodic, while the upper boundary is a frictionless fixed lid. Mean vertical profiles of wind velocity derived from the output are realistic in their shape and response to forest density. Similarly, vertical profiles of Reynolds stress, turbulent kinetic energy and velocity skewness match observations, at least in a qualitative sense. The limited vertical extent of the domain and the artificial upper boundary, however, cause some departures from measured turbulence profiles in real forests. Instantaneous turbulent velocity and scalar fields are presented which show some of the features obtained by tower instrumentation in the field and in wind tunnels, such as the vertical coherence of vertical velocity and the slope of structures revealed by temperature patterns. 相似文献
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Results from radiosoundings, performed both over land and over sea, show that the ascent rate of a radiosounding balloon, the vertical velocity of the balloon, can be used to determine the height of the boundary layer. In many cases the balloon has a higher ascent rate in the boundary layer and a lower, less variable, ascent rate above. The decrease in ascending velocity appears as a jump at the top of the boundary layer. Two examples of potential temperature profiles for unstable stratification and one profile for stable conditions are shown with the corresponding ascent rates. A comparison between the boundary-layer height determined from potential temperature profiles and from ascent rates is presented for a larger dataset. The different ascent rates of the balloon in the boundary layer and above can be explained by a decrease in drag on the balloon in combination with a lowering of the critical Reynolds number in the boundary layer caused by turbulence. Hence, by simply logging the time from release of a radiosonde, it is possible to obtain additional information that can be used to estimate the height of both the unstable and stable boundary layers. 相似文献
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Nobuhisa Yasuda 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1988,43(3):209-221
Diurnal variations of the vertical profiles of wind and temperature have been surveyed, and the diffusivity and the dimensionless gradient function in the atmospheric boundary layer have been estimated. Even in the middle of the atmospheric boundary layer (e.g., below a height of 442 m), the vertical wind profile normalized by the surface friction velocity has approximately a universal profile function different from that in the surface boundary layer. Under strong stability conditions, the dimensionless gradient function has a value of about 9. 相似文献
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Boundedness of Turbulent Temperature Probability Distributions,and their Relation to the Vertical Profile in the Convective Boundary Layer 总被引：3，自引：3，他引：0
Alexander Graf Dirk Schüttemeyer Heiner Geiß Axel Knaps Michael Möllmann-Coers Jan H. Schween Stefan Kollet Bruno Neininger Michael Herbst Harry Vereecken 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2010,134(3):459-486
Higher-order moments, minima and maxima of turbulent temperature and water vapour mixing ratio probability density functions
measured with an eddy-covariance system near the ground were related to each other and to vertical boundary-layer profiles
of the same scalars obtained through airborne soundings. The dependence of kurtosis on squared skewness showed a kurtosis
intercept below the Gaussian expectation, suggesting a compression of the probability density function by the presence of
natural boundaries. This hypothesis was corroborated by comparing actual minima and maxima of turbulent fluctuations to estimates
obtained from the first four sample moments by fitting a four-parameter beta distribution. The most sharply defined boundaries
were found for the minima of temperature datasets during the day, indicating that negative temperature fluctuations at the
sensor are limited by the availability of lower temperatures in the boundary layer. By comparison to vertical profiles, it
could be verified that the turbulent minimum of temperature near the ground is close to the minimum of potential temperature
in the boundary layer. The turbulent minimum of water vapour mixing ratio was found to be equal to the mixing ratio at a height
above the minimum of the temperature profile. This height roughly agrees with the top of the non-local unstable domain according
to bulk Richardson number profiles. We conclude that turbulence statistics measured near the surface cannot be solely explained
by local effects, but contain information about the whole boundary layer including the entrainment zone. 相似文献
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In this study the role of atmospheric boundary layer schemes in climate models is investigated. Including a boundary layer scheme in an Earth system model of intermediate complexity (EMIC) produces only minor differences in the estimated global distribution of sensible and latent heat fluxes over land (upto about 15% of the net radiation at the surface). However, neglecting of boundary layer processes, such as the development of a well-mixed layer over land or the impact of stability on the exchange coefficient in the surface layer, leads to erroneous surface temperatures, especially in convective conditions with low wind speeds. As these conditions occur frequently, introducing a boundary layer scheme in an EMIC gives reductions in June-July-August averaged surface temperature of 1–2 °C in wet areas, to 5–7 °C in desert areas. Even a relatively simple boundary layer scheme provides reasonable estimates of the surface fluxes and surface temperatures. Detailed schemes that solve explicitly the turbulent fluxes within the boundary layer are only required when vertical profiles of potential temperature are needed. 相似文献
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基于湍流散射理论,运用边界层风廓线雷达 (WPR) 联合RASS (Radio Acoustic Sounding System), GPS/PWV (Global Position System/Precipitable Water Vapor) 进行全遥感系统的大气比湿廓线反演试验,并对影响因子进行分析。利用2011年8—9月云南大理综合探测试验数据的反演结果与探空数据进行比较分析,结果表明:WPR联合探空的温度廓线和起始边界比湿 (q0) 反演大气比湿廓线,与探空大气比湿廓线相比具有相同的变化趋势,标准差为0.84 g·kg-1,误差随高度增加呈递增趋势;WPR联合RASS, GPS/PWV数据反演大气比湿廓线,与探空大气比湿廓线的标准差为0.85 g·kg-1。参加反演的数据中,折射指数结构常数Cn2与谱宽σturb2对反演影响最大,反演算法中大气折射指数梯度M符号的判断对反演精度也有较大影响。 相似文献
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I. V. Petenko 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》1999,71(1-2):69-79
Summary A rigorous theoretical consideration of the parameters of a received signal for a RASS based on a radar wind profiler and
operating in the “Bragg”-operation mode is performed. The calculation approach is based on solving the equations analytically
for diffractive wave beams and takes into account diffraction effects in the Fresnel approxim ation for both radio and acoustic
waves generated by antennas with finite sizes. It is shown that the errors due to the displacement of an acoustic source and
horizontal wind are negligible for RASS based on a monostatic radar not only in the far-field but also in the transition zone
between the Fresnel diffraction and far-field ranges at the lowest RASS operational heights.
Received August 24, 1998 Revised February 25, 1999 相似文献
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High-Resolution Fibre-Optic Temperature Sensing: A New Tool to Study the Two-Dimensional Structure of Atmospheric Surface-Layer Flow 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Christoph K. Thomas Adam M. Kennedy John S. Selker Ayla Moretti Martin H. Schroth Alexander R. Smoot Nicholas B. Tufillaro Matthias J. Zeeman 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2012,142(2):177-192
We present a novel approach based on fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) to measure the two-dimensional thermal
structure of the surface layer at high resolution (0.25 m, ≈0.5 Hz). Air temperature observations obtained from a vertically-oriented
fibre-optics array of approximate dimensions 8 m × 8 m and sonic anemometer data from two levels were collected over a short
grass field located in the flat bottom of a wide valley with moderate surface heterogeneity. The objectives of the study were
to evaluate the potential of the DTS technique to study small-scale processes in the surface layer over a wide range of atmospheric
stability, and to analyze the space–time dynamics of transient cold-air pools in the calm boundary layer. The time response
and precision of the fibre-based temperatures were adequate to resolve individual sub-metre sized turbulent and non-turbulent
structures, of time scales of seconds, in the convective, neutral, and stable surface layer. Meaningful sensible heat fluxes
were computed using the eddy-covariance technique when combined with vertical wind observations. We present a framework that
determines the optimal environmental conditions for applying the fibre-optics technique in the surface layer and identifies
areas for potentially significant improvements of the DTS performance. The top of the transient cold-air pool was highly non-stationary
indicating a superposition of perturbations of different time and length scales. Vertical eddy scales in the strongly stratified
transient cold-air pool derived from the DTS data agreed well with the buoyancy length scale computed using the vertical velocity
variance and the Brunt–Vaisala frequency, while scales for weak stratification disagreed. The high-resolution DTS technique
opens a new window into spatially sampling geophysical fluid flows including turbulent energy exchange. 相似文献
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Nikki Vercauteren Elie Bou-Zeid Marc B. Parlange Ulrich Lemmin Hendrik Huwald John Selker Charles Meneveau 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2008,128(2):205-228
We examine the dynamics of turbulence subgrid (or sub-filter) scales over a lake surface and the implications for large-eddy
simulations (LES) of the atmospheric boundary layer. The analysis is based on measurements obtained during the Lake-Atmosphere
Turbulent EXchange (LATEX) field campaign (August–October, 2006) over Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Wind velocity, temperature
and humidity profiles were measured at 20 Hz using a vertical array of four sonic anemometers and open-path gas analyzers.
The results indicate that the observed subgrid-scale statistics are very similar to those observed over land surfaces, suggesting
that the effect of the lake waves on surface-layer turbulence during LATEX is small. The measurements allowed, for the first
time, the study of subgrid-scale turbulent transport of water vapour, which is found to be well correlated with the transport
of heat, suggesting that the subgrid-scale modelling of the two scalars may be coupled to save computational resources during
LES. 相似文献
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In this paper, measurements of the first 150 m of the atmospheric boundary layer obtained by a high-frequency acoustic mini-sounder are compared with measurements obtained by a full complement of instruments including sonic anemometers mounted on the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory tower. The acoustic mini-sounder, starting as low as 6 m from the ground, measures in the monostatic mode the profiles of the vertical wind speed, w, and of the temperature structure parameter, C T 2 with enhanced height resolution of the order of 1 m and time resolution of the order of 30 s. The results of the comparison show that the high-frequency mini-sounder is an effective atmospheric boundary-layer profiler that is also portable and relatively inexpensive. Measurements of the spectrum of C T 2 are presented that provide information on the local isotropy of the temperature field. Statistics of the variability of C T 2 in both stable and unstable conditions are also given. The sounder's capabilities are further demonstrated by some detailed observations of the structure and time evolution of a thermal plume root at noon and of a nocturnal, stably stratified layer in which a dynamic instability develops. The plume starts at a height of less than 5 m, possesses substantial internal structure, and includes vertical velocities in excess of 2 m s-1. 相似文献