ISARS '98
9th International Symposium on
Acoustic Remote Sensing and Associated Techniques of the Atmosphere and
Oceans
Vienna, Austria, 6-10 July 1998
Programme
(as of 2 July 1998, 19.00)
Monday, 6 July 1998
Chair: Erich Mursch-Radlgruber
Opening Session
10.15 Welcome Addresses
Prof. Dr. Erich Mursch-Radlgruber, Chairman of ISARS
Prof. Dr. Herbert Hager, Deputy Rector of the University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
Prof. Dr. Peter Steinhauser, Director of the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG),
Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Helga Kromp-Kolb, President of the Austrian Meteorological Society (ÖGM) and Deputy Head
of the Institute of Meteorology and Physics (IMP) at BOKU
Introductory Talks
10.45 Richard Coulter
The Place for Sodars in a High-Technology Environment 1
11.15 Margarita A. Kallistratova
Progress in the Practical Use of Sodar in the Atmospheric Research and Current
Problems 88
Session 1: Scattering and Propagation
11.45 Anette Schomburg, Detlef Englich
Analysis of the Effect of Acoustic Refraction on Doppler Measurements caused
by Wind and Temperature 8
12.05 Lunch Break
Chair: Margarita A. Kallistratova
13.30 Arakel Petrosyan, A.V. Belya, S.S. Moissev
Sound transformation in a turbulent medium
13.50 Margarita S. Fokina, Vladimir N. Fokin
Influence of the Physical and Acoustical Characteristics of a Layered Bottom
on the Structure of Angular and Frequency Resonances 12
14.10 Douglas O. ReVelle, Sergey N. Kulichkov
On Lamb Wave Propagation from Small Surface Explosions in the Atmospheric
Boundary Layer 16
14.30 Alexander Bogushevich, Nikolai Krasnenko
Influence of the Atmospheric Channel on the Sound Propagation above the
Ground Surface 19
14.50 Dieter Hohenwarter
Sound Propagation Near the Ground and in the Atmosphere 23
15.10 Afternoon break
15.40 Astrid Ziemann, Klaus Arnold, Armin Raabe
Acoustic Tomography - A Method for Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Surface
Layer 29
16.00 Victor Prokhorov
On the Nature of Sound Scattering in the Sea Medium: the Lab Modeling of
Acoustic Boundaries on a Stratified Liquid 37
16.20 Poster Introductions for Session 1 (Scattering and Propagation)
P1-1 Boris G. Katsnelson, S.A. Pereselkov
Acoustic Effects due to Internal Solitons in Shallow Water 33
P1-2 Vladimir N. Fokin, Margarita S. Fokina
The Accuracy and Stability of the Stage-by-stage Reconstruction of Layered
Elasic Bottom Characteristics from Sound Reflectivity 41
P1-3 Victor Zosimov, Vadim Kondratjev
Detection of Weak Sound Source in Water by Means of Plunged Rod 45
P1-4 Luydmila Shamanaeva
Study of the Spectra of Laser Induced Acoustic Signals 47
P1-5 S.N. Netreba
A Coherent Generation of Acoustic-Electric Disturbances at Atmospheric Condensation
and Application
P1-6 Dimitrii Denisov
The Calculation of the Heat Capacity of Gas Mixtures at Constant Volume
on the Basis of the Data Referring to the Pure Components Including the
Values of Sound Velocity in Them 51
P1-7 Klaus Arnold, Astrid Ziemann, Armin Raabe
Experimental Method of Acoustic Tomography inside the Atmospheric Surface
Layer 55
P1-8 Sergey N. Kulichkov
On Problems of Acoustic Remote Method to Sound Large-Scale Turbulence in
the Middle Atmosphere 59
P1-9 Evgeny A. Ponomarev, Alexandr G. Sorokin, V.N. Tabulevich
Some Aspects of the Long-Range Propagation of Infrasound in the Atmosphere 63
Session 2: Instrumentation
a) Signal Processing and Technology
Chair: Richard L. Coulter
16.40 Stuart S. Bradley
Use of Coded Waveforms for Sodar Systems 67
17.10 Poster Introductions for Session 2a (Instrumentation Signal Processing and Technology)
P2-1 Vladimir Kartashov, Igor Korytsev
Optimal Algorithms of Signal Processing in Radio Acoustic Systems 107
P2-2 Ravi M. Khanna, O. Sharma, V. Mohanan
Design of High Efficiency Phased Array Array Antenna for an Acoustic Wind
Profiler
P2-3 Bostjan Paradiz, J. Leskovsek, K. Hodnik
Design of an Additional Acoustic Enclosure to Increase the Number of Potential
Sodar Measurement Sites 110
P2-4 Yuri S. Rusakov
Vortex-Acoustic Sounding - A New Method for Remote Measurement of Atmospheric
Parameters 111
P2-5 Valery Vetrov, Yury Ulyanov, Victor Bedin
Formation Features and the Fine Structure of Sodar Dot-Echoes 115
P2-6 Govindaraj Rengarajan, Erich Mursch-Radlgruber, Carl Bamford
Multiprocessing & Software Design for the BOKU Mini-Sodar 119
P2-7 Erich Mursch-Radlgruber, Govindaraj Rengarajan
Aspects of High Frequency Acoustic Sounding Examples from Applications
of the BOKU-Mini-Sodar 103
17.25-18.00: Poster Viewing Time (P1, P2-1 to P2-7)
18:00 Cocktail Reception at the Meeting Place
Tuesday, 7 July 1998
Session 2a: Signal Processing and Technology (Cont.)
Chair: Richard L. Coulter
9.00 Jim R. Jordan, S.W. Abbott, Brian D. Templeman, R.J. Lataitis
Wavelet Filtering of Sodar Signals 71
9.30 Philippe Goupil, Vladislav Klaus, G. Chérel, Roger Durbe
On the Use of the Wavelet-Packets Transform to Improve the Measurement of
the RASS Temperature Profiles 76
9.50 Mikhail S. Pekour
Removal of Bird Contamination in Wind Profiler Signal Spectra 80
10.10 Govindaraj Rengarajan, Rajagopalan Ramachandran, Erich Mursch-Radlgruber,
Carl Bamford
Comparison of Fast Fourier Transform and Autocorrelation Techniques for
Sodar Back-Scatter Signal Processing 84
10.30 Morning break
11.00 Hans Steinhagen, Dirk Engelbart, Uli Görsdorf, Joachim Neisser
Integrated Systems for Wind and Temperature Profiling 95
11.30 Jyoti Chande, Anil Kulkarni, S.H. Damle: Configuring Mini-Sodar for Wind Energy Potential Measurement 99
11.50 Hartmut Graßl, Shixuan Pang, H. Jeske
A Portable High Frequency Mini-Sodar-Disdrometer
12.10 Pan Naixian
The Seeing Monitoring with a Sodar 308
12.30 Lunch Break
Chair: Giangiuseppe Mastrantonio
Session 2b: Sodar Intercomparisons
14.00 Gerhard Peters, Bernd Fischer, Hans-Juergen Kirtzel
Sodar Turbulence-Profiles Versus Surface Measurements 123
14.20 Josef Keder
Comparsion of Synchronous Sodar and Routine Rawinsonde Measurements 127
14.40 Martin Piringer, Kathrin Baumann
A Sodar-Tethersonde Intercomparsion of Valley Winds at Graz, Austria 128
15.00 Siegfried Vogt, P. Thomas, Jean-Michel Fage
Temperature Lapse Rate Measurement Using a Doppler Sodar 132
15.20 Petra Seibert
Long-Time Comparison of Remtech PA2 Sodar Wind and Turbulence Measurements
with Cabauw Tower Data 136
15.15 Afternoon Break
15.45 Poster Introductions for Session 2b (Sodar Intercomparisons)
P2-7 Heinz Berger, Philippe Tercier
Three Year Experience in Operating a Phased Array Sodar
P2-8 Oliver Reitebuch, Siegfried Vogt
Comparison of Horizontal and Vertical Wind Components Measured by the METEK
DSDR 3x7 Sodar and Tower Instruments 143
P2-9 Jyoti Chande, Anil Kulkarni, Kushai Tuckley, Ajay Khandare, S.H. Damle
Performance Evaluation and Data Validation of Doppler Sodar Using a Kytoon
Experiment 147
P2-10 S.I. Babkin, I.A. Delov, Eugueny G. Proshkin
Remote Sounding Means Integration with a View to Increase the Air Temperature
Measuring Accuracy 151
P2-11 Igor V. Petenko
Improved Estimation of RASS-Measured Temperature Corrections 154
P2-12 Ulrich Görsdorf, Igor V. Petenko
Some Results of Experimental Investigation of the RASS-Measured Temperature
Accuracy 160
P2-13 Kenneth H. Underwood
Gust Detection with a Mini-Sodarä System 164
P2-14 Renat G. Minullin
Atmosphere Layers Probing by Multi-Frequency Systems
Session 2c: Sodar and Rain Detection
16.00 Stuart S. Bradley, John Taylor, David Stow, Garry Woods
Sodar, Mini-Sodar, RASS, Rain Profiler and Ultrasonic Spectrometer Use in
a Mesoscale Wind/Rain Study 167
16.20 Nikolai Krasnenko, Sergej Shamanaev, Luydmilla Shamanaeva
Transformation of Raindrop Size Distribution from the Data of Acoustic Sounding 171ikolai
16.40 Poster Introductions for Sessions 2c (Rain Detection) and 2d (RASS, Lidar and Integrated Systems)
P2-15 Shixuan Pang, Hartmut Graßl, H. Jeske
High Frequency Acoustic Rainfall Sounding and the Correction of Spectral
Broadening and Vertical Wind
P2-16 Dirk Engelbart, Hans Steinhagen, Uli Görsdorf, Joachim Neisser
Preliminary Results of Measurements with a Newly Designed Phased Array Sodar
with RASS
P2-17 Eugueny G. Proshkin
Atmosphere Boundary Layer Turbulence Level Estimation with Radioacoustic
Sounding Methods 187
P2-18 Dirk Engelbart
Determination of Boundary-Layer Parameters Using Windprofiler/RASS and Sodar/RASS 192
P2-19 Paolo Trivero, Alberto Marzorati, Piero Marcacci, Guiseppe Bonino, Roberto
Rosello
Improvements of a Decimetric RASS 196
P2-20 Yukio Akai, Takao Kanzaki
The Application of a Mobile RASS to Observation of an Urban Heat Island 200
P2-21 Yury Ulyanov, Y. Prokopenko, Valery Vetrov
Potentialities of the Monostatic Inclined RASS System for PBL Temperature
and Wind Profiling 179
P2-22 Ursula Reiter, D. Weidauer, S. Dinev, L. Windholz
Differential Absorption Lidar Ozone Measurements 204
P2-23 Hermann Schranzhofer, Ursula Reiter, S. Dinev, L. Windholz
SO2 Calibration Measurements of a Differential Absorption Lidar 208
P2-24 B.C. Arya, S.L. Jain, S. Sharma, Sudhanshu Kumar
Monitoring of Water Vapour and Ethene by Differential Absorption Lidar
17.0018.00 Poster Viewing Time (Posters P2-7 to P2-24)
20.00 Reception in the City Hall
Wednesday, 8 July 1998
Workshop on Applications
Chair: Erich Mursch-Radlgruber
9.00 Short Statements
Erich Mursch-Radlgruber: Sodar as Practical Tool Benefits and Needs
Hartmut Walter: Report from Recent German Sodar Workshop in Munich
Hans-Juergen Kirtzel (METEK): Long-Term Sodar Comparison
Kenneth Underwood (AEROVIRONMENT): The AeroVironment Sodar
Thiermann (SCINTEC): The New FAS64 Sodar
Martin Piringer (ZAMG): Expectations of an Operational Weather Service on Sodars and Wind Profiler
NN (Austro Control GesmbH): First Experiences with a Wind Prrofiler at the Airport Wien-Schwechat
10.30 Morning Break
11.00 Open Discussion
12.00 Lunch Break
13.30 Excursion to
Central Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (ZAMG), Vienna
Civil Aviation Authority (ACG), Vienna
BOKU Field Site with BOKU Mini Sodar and Remtech PA2 Sodar, Grossenzersdorf
18.00 End of Excursion (estimated)
Thursday, 9 July 1998
Session 2d: RASS, Lidar and Integrated Systems
Chair: Petra Seibert
9.00 Guy Potvin, Roddy R. Rogers
Measuring Vertical Heat Flux with RASS 175
9.20 Gary Woods
A Constant-Wave Radio Acoustic Sounding System
9.40 Richard L. Coulter, G. Klazura, B.M. Lesht, J.D. Shannon, D.L. Sisterson,
M.L. Wesely
The Argonne Boundary Layer Experiments Facility: Using Mini-Sodars to Complement
a Wind Profiler Network 183
10.00 Morning Break
Session 3a: Applications Boundary Layer
Chair: Stuart S. Bradley
10.30 Frank Beyrich
Sodar Studies in the Convective Boundary Layer: Thermal Plumes and Entrainment
Zone Depth 209
11.00 Margarita A. Kallistratova, Valery F. Kramar, Rostislav D. Kusnetsov, I.G.
Granberg, Galina Yu. Chirokova, B.S. Agrovskii
Use of Acoustic and Laser Sounding for Study of the Mechanisms of Arid Aerosol
Convective Displacement in New Desert Regions of Kalmykia 215
11.20 Oliver Reitebuch
Determination of Vertical Wind Speed from Single-Pulse Frequency Spectra
for the Measurement of Scalar Fluxes 219
11.40 Nikolai Krasnenko, Lyudmila Shamanaeva
Sodar Derived Vertical Profiles of the Structural Characteristics of Temperature
Fluctuations and the Outer Scale of Turbulence 223
12.00 Lunch Break
13.30 Constantine G. Helmis, J.A. Kalogiros, Demosthenis N. Asimakopoulos
Estimation of the Temperature Gradient in Stable Layers Using an Acoustic
Sounder 227
13.50 Igor V. Petenko, Giangiuseppe Mastrantonio, Stefania Argentini
Three-Beam Sodar Technique for Estimating Speed and Direction of Propagation
of Atmospheric Phenomena in the ABL 231
14.10 Kenneth H. Underwood
Mixing Height Detection
14.30 Jacek Walczewski
Sodar Data as a Basis for an Empirical Model of Diurnal and Annual Variability
of Mean Mixing Height 235
14.50 Poster Introductions for Session 3a (Boundary Layer Applications)
P3-1 Kathrin Baumann, Matthias Langer, Martin Piringer
Comparison of Sodar Winds and Lapse Rate Estimates with Tethered Balloon
Data and Mesoscale Model Results 239
P3-2 Vladislav N. Ivanov, Yuri S. Rusakov
Features of Spatial-Temporal Variability of Temperature Pulsations under
Convection 243
P3-3 Igor V. Petenko, Vjatcheslav A. Bezverkhnii
Specific Scales of the Convective ABL Derived from Sodar Data with the Wavelet
Transform 247
P3-4 Evgueni A. Shurygin
Comparsion of Two Algorithms of Automatic Recognition of Atmospheric Stratificaton
by Digital Facsimile Records
P3-5 John R. Taylor
Perturbations to a Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer
P3-6 Valery Kramar, Margarita Kallistratova
On a Possibility of Sodar Data Use in K-b Short-Range Dispersion Models 251
P3-7 V.J. Daoo, R.B. Oza, V. Sitaraman
A Case Study of Sodar Backscatter Intensity Profiles During Partial Solar
Eclipse on October 24th, 1995, Observed at Bombay, India 255
15.05 Afternoon Break
Session 3b: Urban Environment and Complex Terrain
Chair: Frank Beyrich
15.40 Stefania Argentini, Gianguiseppe Mastrantonio, Anuelo Viola, Igor Petenko
Evaluation of the Mixed-Layer Parameters in the Urban Area of Milan by Doppler-Sodar
and Tethersonde Data 259
16.00 Mikhail A. Lokoshenko, Anatoly A. Isaev, Igor V. Petenko, P.O. Shishkov,
L.K. Vartanova
Investigations of Temperature Inversions Above Moscow and Suburbs with the
Help of Moving Sodar 263
16.20 Demosthenis N. Asimakopoulos, Constantine G. Helmis, H.A. Flocas, J.A. Kalogiros
Observations of Strong Lee Side Disturbances Downstream of a Steep Mountain
Using Sodar Data 269
16.40 Sabine von Hünerbein, Hans Richner
Stratus Situations over Complex Terrain Observed with a Doppler Sodar: First
Results 273
17.00 Poster Introductions for Session 3b (Urban Environment and Complex Terrain)
P3-8 Margarita A. Kallistratova, Mikhail A. Lokoshchenko
Studying of Mixing Layer Height by Radiosonde and Sodar Observations 285
P3-9 Nina Maksymova, Yury Ulyanov
Research of Sea Breezes Over Black Sea Northwest Coast by Means of Acoustic
and Radioacoustic Sounding 289
17.05 Poster Introductions for Session 3c (Air Quality Applications)
P3-10 Renato A.C. Carvalho, Victor M. Prior
Portuguese Echosonde Experiments 298
P3-11 Bhim S. Gera, Neeraj Saxena, G. Singh, V.K. Ojha, H.D. Pandey
On the Possibility of a Sodar Determination of Dispersion Coefficients
P3-12 Alexander S. Gribanov, A.S. Pronin, V.N. Sablin
Multilevel Monitoring Technology and Natural Phenomena
P3-13 S.L. Jain, B.C. Arya, S. Sharma
Surface Ozone Measurements over New Delhi
P3-14 Kenneth H. Underwood
Doppler Sodar Support for Solar Electric Plane Operations 293
17.20 Poster Introductions for Session 3d (Polar Applications)
P3-15 Giangiuseppe Mastrantonio, Stefania Argentini, G. Dargaud, T. Georgiadis, Anuelo Viola: Convective Boundary Layer Observations on the Antarctic Plateau 312
P3-16 Jaya Naithani, H.N. Dutta, N.C. Deb
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics Observed by Sodar over the Schirmacher
Oasis, East Antarctica 316
17.25-18.15 Poster Viewing Time (Posters 3-1 to 3-16)
20.00 "Heuriger" Evening
Friday 10 July 1998
Chair:Igor Petenko
Session 3b: Urban Environment and Complex Terrain (Cont.)
9.00 Michael Bennett
A Lidar Study of Onshore Breezes Near Sellafield, Cumbria, July-August 1997 277
9.20 Yoshiki Ito, Taiichi Hayashi
Internal Boundary Layer Over a Small Island as Observed by a Five-Beam Phased
Array Doppler Sodar 281
Session 3c/d: Air Quality, Polar and Other Applications
9.40 Julia Hinojosa, Maria R. Soler
Estimation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Parameters from Doppler Sodar and
Tower Data for Diffusion Applications 294
10.00 Sagar P. Singal, Sudhanshu Kumar
Sodar Studies of Air Pollution Associated Meteorological Parameters in the
Hills of Assam, India 302
10.20 Phil S. Anderson
Probing Monostatic Sodar Structure Features Using Kite Borne Instruments
in Antarctica 307
10.40 Morning Break
11.20 Bhim S. Gera
Studies of Some Aspects of Wind Characteristics in Relation to Thermal Structures
of the Stable Boundary Layer Observed
11.30 Closing Session
Chair: Erich Mursch-Radlgruber
Discussion of Future ISARS Activities Including the Next Symposium
13.00 End of the Conference (estimated)
Saturday, 11 July 1998
Wachau Boat Excursion
(Right-hand side numbers refer to the pages in the Proceedings.)
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