The interpretation of saturated spectra as obtained from atmospheric balloon measurements

Authors
Alexander, P de la Torre, A
Citation
P. Alexander et A. De La Torre, The interpretation of saturated spectra as obtained from atmospheric balloon measurements, J APPL MET, 38(3), 1999, pp. 334-342
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY
ISSN journal
08948763 → ACNP
Volume
38
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
334 - 342
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-8763(199903)38:3<334:TIOSSA>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Transformations that take into account the characteristics of balloon motio n and wave propagation to infer the "real" vertical wavelengths from the "a pparent" ones measured during soundings were derived in a first paper. Thes e results are now used to estimate the deviation of the saturated spectra o btained with balloon measurements from the theoretically expected shape. It is found that data stemming from slowly ascending or descending balloons m ay lead to a significant distortion of spectra.