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This paper is presenting a feasibility study focused on methods of estimating the turbulence intensity based on a class of navigational messages routinely broadcast by the commercial aircraft (known as ADS-B and Mode-S). Using this kind of information could have potentially significant impact on aviation safety. Three methods have been investigated.
This paper is presenting a feasibility study focused on methods of estimating the turbulence...
Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2253–2265, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2253-2016
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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2253–2265, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2253-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Research article 23 May 2016
Research article | 23 May 2016
Retrieving atmospheric turbulence information from regular commercial aircraft using Mode-S and ADS-B
Jacek M. Kopeć et al.
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Temperature inversion layers originate based on the combined forcing of local- and large-scale synoptic meteorology. A numerical procedure based on a linear interpolation function of variable length that minimizes an error function set a priori is proposed to extract thermodynamic information of the multilayered thermal structure. The method is demonstrated to detect surface-based inversion and multilayered elevated inversions present often in high-latitude atmospheres.
G. E. Bodeker and S. Kremser
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 1673–1684, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1673-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1673-2015, 2015
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This paper discusses, and demonstrates, the methodology for reliably determining long-term trends in upper air climate data records and how measurement uncertainties should be used in trend analyses. A pedagogical approach is taken whereby numerical recipes for key parts of the trend analysis process are explored. The paper describes the construction of linear least squares regression models for trend analysis and the boot-strapping approach to determine the uncertainty on the derived trends.
M. P. Jensen, T. Toto, D. Troyan, P. E. Ciesielski, D. Holdridge, J. Kyrouac, J. Schatz, Y. Zhang, and S. Xie
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 421–434, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-421-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-421-2015, 2015
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A major component of the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) was a six-site radiosonde array designed to capture the large-scale variability of the atmospheric state. This manuscript describes the details of the MC3E radiosonde operations including the instrumentation, data processing and analysis of the impacts of bias correction and algorithm assumptions on the determination of forcing data sets.
K. Ramesh, A. P. Kesarkar, J. Bhate, M. Venkat Ratnam, and A. Jayaraman
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 369–384, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-369-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-369-2015, 2015
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The study of atmospheric convection is important for the understanding of evolution of diurnal cycles of rainfall. High-resolution observations of vertical profiles of temperature and relative humidity are very useful for understanding the behaviour of these convections. Microwave radiometers are becoming useful tools for it. In this paper, we propose a new method to retrieve these profiles based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy interface systems and find that this method has a better skill of retrieval.
T. H. Raupach and A. Berne
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 343–365, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-343-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-343-2015, 2015
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Using the 2-D video disdrometer (2DVD) as a reference, a technique to correct the spectra of drop size distribution (DSD) measured by Parsivel disdrometers (1st and 2nd generation) is proposed. The measured velocities and equivolume diameters are corrected to better match those from the 2DVD. The correction is evaluated using data from southern France and the Swiss Plateau. It appears to be similar for both climatologies, and to improve the consistency with colocated 2DVDs and rain gauges.
A. Sanchez-Romero, J. A. González, J. Calbó, and A. Sanchez-Lorenzo
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 183–194, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-183-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-183-2015, 2015
R. J. Dirksen, M. Sommer, F. J. Immler, D. F. Hurst, R. Kivi, and H. Vömel
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 4463–4490, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4463-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4463-2014, 2014
R. D. García, E. Cuevas, O. E. García, V. E. Cachorro, P. Pallé, J. J. Bustos, P. M. Romero-Campos, and A. M. de Frutos
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 3139–3150, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3139-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3139-2014, 2014
J. Grazioli, D. Tuia, S. Monhart, M. Schneebeli, T. Raupach, and A. Berne
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2869–2882, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2869-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2869-2014, 2014
M. A. Gruber, G. J. Fochesatto, O. K. Hartogensis, and M. Lysy
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2361–2371, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2361-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2361-2014, 2014
K. Tohsing, M. Schrempf, S. Riechelmann, and G. Seckmeyer
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2137–2146, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2137-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2137-2014, 2014
R. A. Vincent and A. Hertzog
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 1043–1055, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1043-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1043-2014, 2014
N. B. Wood, T. S. L'Ecuyer, F. L. Bliven, and G. L. Stephens
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 3635–3648, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3635-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3635-2013, 2013
S. Federico
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 3563–3576, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3563-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3563-2013, 2013
R. Wilson, H. Luce, H. Hashiguchi, M. Shiotani, and F. Dalaudier
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 697–702, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-697-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-697-2013, 2013
M. Li, W. Babel, K. Tanaka, and T. Foken
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 221–229, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-221-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-221-2013, 2013
A. D. Griffiths, S. D. Parkes, S. D. Chambers, M. F. McCabe, and A. G. Williams
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 207–218, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-207-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-207-2013, 2013
A. Gallice, F. G. Wienhold, C. R. Hoyle, F. Immler, and T. Peter
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 2235–2253, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-2235-2011, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-2235-2011, 2011
R. Wilson, F. Dalaudier, and H. Luce
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 795–804, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-795-2011, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-795-2011, 2011
A. Roesch, M. Wild, A. Ohmura, E. G. Dutton, C. N. Long, and T. Zhang
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 339–354, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-339-2011, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-339-2011, 2011
F. J. Immler, J. Dykema, T. Gardiner, D. N. Whiteman, P. W. Thorne, and H. Vömel
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 1217–1231, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-3-1217-2010, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-3-1217-2010, 2010
I. Trebs, B. Bohn, C. Ammann, U. Rummel, M. Blumthaler, R. Königstedt, F. X. Meixner, S. Fan, and M. O. Andreae
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2, 725–739, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2-725-2009, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2-725-2009, 2009
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This paper is presenting a feasibility study focused on methods of estimating the turbulence intensity based on a class of navigational messages routinely broadcast by the commercial aircraft (known as ADS-B and Mode-S). Using this kind of information could have potentially significant impact on aviation safety. Three methods have been investigated.
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