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Radio probing of the troposphere
Author(s) -
Little C. Gordon
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs010i007p00735
Subject(s) - troposphere , atmospheric sciences , atmosphere (unit) , water vapor , convective storm detection , gravity wave , environmental science , turbulence kinetic energy , orographic lift , turbulence , breaking wave , lapse rate , convection , kinetic energy , momentum (technical analysis) , geophysics , physics , meteorology , precipitation , wave propagation , classical mechanics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
Radio wave interactions with the atmosphere and its constituents have been used to derive information on many aspects of the troposphere. Passively (i.e., in the radiometric mode), they have been used to measure temperature profiles and the water vapor and liquid water contents of the atmosphere, and to identify tornadic storms. In the active mode, three‐dimensional fields of precipitation and velocity have been measured. These have permitted studies of horizontal and vertical velocities, vorticity, convergence, turbulence spectra, turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rates, and fluxes of momentum and kinetic energy, as well as studies of such atmospheric phenomena as thermal plumes, convective cells, internal gravity waves, breaking waves, and convective and orographic storms.