SODAR applications for estimating boundary layer parameters

Annalisa Capanni; Giovanni Gualtieri

doi:10.1117/12.371332

10 December 1999 SODAR applications for estimating boundary layer parameters

Annalisa Capanni, Giovanni Gualtieri

Proceedings Volume 3866, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.371332
Event: Remote Sensing, 1999, Florence, Italy

Abstract

An application of Doppler SODAR technique has been made in order to evaluate the main atmospheric variables affecting the boundary layer structure in a plain terrain. Besides directly monitoring such meteorological variables as wind profiles, the application of a number of methods and algorithms enabled the estimation of features such as atmospheric turbulence, Monin-Obukhov length, friction velocity and PBL depth, which are all crucial for both straightforward meteorological applications and as an input to atmospheric pollutant dispersion models. Such a study has been developed within a SODAR measurement campaign carried out by the Laboratorio per la Meteorologia e la Modellistica Ambientale in cooperation with the research center of ENEL/CRAM during the 1997-98 wintertime in the industrial area of Campi Bisenzio (near Florence), Italy.

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Annalisa Capanni and Giovanni Gualtieri "SODAR applications for estimating boundary layer parameters", Proc. SPIE 3866, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems III, (10 December 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.371332

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