Geraint Vaughan

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Lecture 1

• Geraint Vaughan

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Radiosondes
Vaisala RS80
Vaisala RS92
European radiosonde stations (launch 00 and 12
UTC)
Launching a radiosonde
Data available from http//weather.uwyo.edu/upper
air/sounding.html
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Examples of radiosonde profiles temperature vs
height
stratosphere
stratosphere
T
T
troposphere
troposphere
I
stratosphere
stratosphere
T
troposphere
T
T tropopause I inversion (top of boundary
layer in this case)
troposphere
I
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Examples of radiosonde profiles potential
temperature vs height
Note ? always increases with height we can use
? as a vertical coordinate in the stratosphere
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