Structure parameters for temperature and humidity from simultaneous eddy-covariance and scintillometer measurements

Line-averaged values of the structure parameters of temperature and humidity, C2T and C2q, were estimated from simultaneous measurements with an optical and a microwave scintillometer over a path of 4.7 km length at the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg during the LITFASS-2003 experiment. By cro...

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Main Authors: Frank Beyrich, Rostislav D. Kouznetsov, Jens-Peter Leps, Andreas Lüdi, Wouter M.L. Meijninger, Ulrich Weisensee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2005-10-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0064
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Summary:Line-averaged values of the structure parameters of temperature and humidity, C2T and C2q, were estimated from simultaneous measurements with an optical and a microwave scintillometer over a path of 4.7 km length at the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg during the LITFASS-2003 experiment. By cross-correlating the detected signals of the two scintillometers, the temperature-humidity structure parameter, CTq, and the temperature-humidity correlation, rTq, were also derived directly from the measurements. Comparison with corresponding values obtained from local measurements with an eddy-covariance system on a meteorological tower show a consistent behaviour in time (with some exceptions especially for C2q and rTq during nighttime). The deviations are of a magnitude between 20 % and 35 % of the typical daytime values of the structure parameters.
ISSN:0941-2948