Remote Sensing of Stable Boundary Layer of Atmosphere

Abstract

The stability of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) has been studied experimentally with a Stream Line coherent Doppler wind lidar and an MTP-5 temperature profilometer. Two-dimensional height-time distributions of the parameters characterizing the ABL temperature regime and wind turbulence, namely, the Richardson number, the dissipation rate of the kinetic energy of turbulence, the variance of fluctuations of the radial velocity, and the outer scale of turbulence, have been obtained. The amplitudes and period of oscillations of wind velocity components during atmospheric waves arising in the stable ABL have been determined.