| Issue |
A&A
Volume 416, Number 3, March IV 2004
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 1193 - 1200 | |
| Section | Astronomical instrumentation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031390 | |
| Published online | 09 March 2004 | |
Optical turbulence modeling in the boundary layer and free atmosphere using instrumented meteorological balloons
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Hautes Énergies et Astrophysique, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, BP 2390, Marrakech, Maroc
2
LUAN, UMR 6525, Université de Nice–Sophia Antipolis, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
Corresponding author: A. Jabiri, jean@vernin@unice.fr
Received:
12
May
2003
Accepted:
25
August
2003
In this paper, we study the behavior of atmospheric turbulence in
the boundary layer and free atmosphere using balloon–born
radiosondes. The data measurements were carried out with 168 balloons launched from 9 sites. Profiles of various parameters
(
, M2 and Lo) characterizing atmospheric turbulence
are established. We work out statistical models of atmospheric
turbulence in the boundary layer, and we checked their coherence
by comparing them with other models. In the free atmosphere, the profile is coherent with those of the models of
Hufnagel
and of Brown-Beland. A complete behavior of the outer scale Lo is given from the ground up to 30 km which fits with partial
models of Coulman-Vernin and Beland-Brown.
Key words: turbulence / atmospheric effects / balloons
© ESO, 2004
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