The inclinations of atmospheric layers according to sounding data
Abstract
The inclinations of atmospheric layers of equal refractive indices are evaluated using data on wind direction and velocity at various altitudes obtained by aerological sounding. Equations relating the projection of atmospheric inclination on the meridional and first vertical planes to aerological data are solved numerically, taking into account variations of refractivity and temperature with altitude, for eight layers of the atmosphere up to an altitude of 30 km based on data from 71 atmospheric soundings from a slightly hilly region with no observable inclination. Values of the midmonth clear weather inclinations of the separate atmospheric layers are presented for October 1968 and July and October 1972, and it is concluded that seasonal and diurnal variations of atmospheric inclination occur as a result of variations of atmospheric inclination occur as a result of variations in atmospheric stratification.
- Publication:
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Astrometriia i Astrofizika
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979AAfz...39...81V
- Keywords:
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- Aerology;
- Atmospheric Optics;
- Atmospheric Stratification;
- Inclination;
- Refractivity;
- Annual Variations;
- Atmospheric Temperature;
- Diurnal Variations;
- Night Sky;
- Wind Direction;
- Wind Velocity Measurement;
- Astronomy