VDI 3786 Blatt 18
Environmental meteorology - Ground-based remote sensing of temperature - Radio-acoustic sounding systems (RASS)
At a glance
- German title
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Umweltmeteorologie - Bodengebundene Fernmessung der Temperatur - Radioakustische Sondierungssysteme (RASS)
- Publication date
- 2010-05
- Publisher
- Engl. VDI/DIN-Kommission Reinhaltung der Luft (KRdL) - Normenausschuss
- Related manuals
- Number of pages
- 64
- Available in
- German, English
- Abstract
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The guideline describes a range-resolved determination of temperature as well as of wind velocity and wind direction with Radioacoustic Sounding Systems (RASS). RASS is suitable for a wide range of measurement tasks: combined measurement of temperature and wind profiles, e.g. for boundary layer examination, for analysis of strong discontinuities within temperature and wind profile (shears); recording of air mass changes, of foehn occurrences as well as detecting structures of boundary layers and turbulences.The following applications are particularly important: - production of data for numerical dispersion models, site approval certificates and environmental compatibility assessment - flight safety and aviation weather services including the quantitative determination even of extreme ground inversions - plant monitoring during regular and irregular operations - routine temperature profiling from aerological stations.