Tethered Balloon Measurements Made at Naval Air Development Center (December 1985).

Abstract

For six daylight periods, a meteorological package attached to a tethered balloon and radiosondes measured water vapor profiles at the Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA, for comparison with water vapor profiles made by a solar blind Raman laser radar (lidar). This report discusses the water vapor, temperature, scattering coefficient, and ozone profiles made with the meteorological package which was built from in situ dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, and pressure. A nephelometer with a photopic response measured the scattering coefficient. The ozone measurements were made with an electrochemical concentration cell in a soned, loaned from the NOAA Laboratory in Boulder, Co. A 53-foot aerostat balloon carried the NRL package from the surface to 800 m. During the test period, stable and well-mixed boundary layers were observed. A warm front was profiled on the last day of the experiment. Keywords: Temperature profiles, Planetary boundary layer, Water vapor statistics, and Profiles of scattering coefficient.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 29, 1986
Accession Number
ADA176254

Entities

People

  • H. Gerber
  • W. P. Hooper

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerostats
  • Altimeters
  • Altitude
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Classification
  • Coefficients
  • Instrumentation
  • Laser Radar
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Nephelometers
  • Scattering
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Vapors
  • Water Vapor
  • Wet Bulb Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Fault Tolerant Diagnosis of Black and White Balloon Isolation Tests Using ¥.
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers