A simple method to estimate clear air refractivity profile in the stably stratified marine atmospheric boundary layer

Author

Xiangming Guo ; Shifeng Kang ; Yusheng Zhang

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Electromagn. Environ., China Res. Inst. of Radio-wave Propagation, Qingdao, China

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A method to estimate clear air atmospheric refractivity profile in the stable marine atmospheric boundary layer is presented. The method is based upon the extended similarity theory for the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer and determines the refractivity profile from measuring atmospheric pressure, air temperatures, air humidity and wind speed at a single height within the marine atmospheric surface layer, and sea surface temperature. The proposed method is simple to determine electromagnetic propagation effects for radar, communication over sea.

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric pressure; atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; ocean temperature; radiowave propagation; refractive index; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; wind; air humidity; air temperatures; atmospheric pressure; clear air atmospheric refractivity profile; electromagnetic propagation effects; extended similarity theory; sea surface temperature; stably stratified marine atmospheric boundary layer; wind speed; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Humidity; Ocean temperature; Refractive index; Sea surface; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929672

Filename

6929672