COMPARISON OF TEMPERATURE PROFILES AND INHOMOGENEITY STRUCTURE OBTAINED FROM A MICROWAVE RADIOMETER AND A TALL METEOROLOGICAL MAST

A. S. Vyazankin, E. N. Kadygrov, N. F. Mazurin, A. V. Troitskii, and G. N. Shur

The paper describes an experiment carried out in Obninsk in July–August 1999. Boundary-layer temperature profiles obtained by a contact method were compared with MTP-5 temperature profiler data. A standard deviation was 0.6–0.65K. Similar comparisons were performed earlier only beyond Russia. A comparison of structural temperature inhomogeneities measured with sensors placed on a tall meteorological mast and with a microwave radiometer (60 GHz) allowed us to estimate an extent of agreement between local and integral estimates of the scales and energy of coherent structures.