Acoustic Remote Sensing Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Singal, Sagar Pal (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 69
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences.; Air pollution.; Radiation protection.; Radiation-Safety measures.; Environmental monitoring.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.

This book, which is divided into three parts, gives a state-of-the-art report on technical developments in instrumentation and on theoretical advancements in acoustic remote sensing. It explains the utilization of acoustic techniques in studies related to the structure of the lower atmosphere and oc...

Table of Contents:

• Physical grounds for acoustic remote sensing of the atmospheric boundary layer
• An overview of the technological development of atmospheric echosounders (SODARS)
• Design of a tri-monostatic doppler sodar system
• A modular PC-based multiband sodar system
• Mini acoustic sounding, a powerful tool for ABL applications: Recent advances
• Radio-acoustic temperature profiling in the troposphere
• Radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) for studying the lower atmosphere
• Determination of the turbulent structure parameters
• Turbulence variables derived from sodar data
• Development of sodar detection and its application for studies of atmospheric boundary layer in Beijing, China
• Influence of the nocturnal low-level-jet on the vertical and mesoscale structure of the stable boundary layer as revealed from doppler-sodar-observations
• Dynamics of the continental boundary layer: The CRPE sodar results (1984-1993)
• Sodar investigations of gravity waves by cross spectral analysis
• Sodar monitoring of nocturnal boundary layer during the harmattan in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
• An overview of similarity methods to estimate turbulence quantities from sodar measurements in the convective boundary layer
• Sodar: A tool to characterize hazardous situations in air pollution and communication
• Application of sodar in urban air-quality monitoring systems
• Operational use of sodar information in nowcasting
• Acoustic remote sensing of ocean flows
• Acoustic remote sensing of ocean-atmosphere interactions
• Range-average inversions in ocean acoustic tomography
• Acoustic measurements of currents and effluent plume dilutions in the western edge of the florida current
• Acoustic propagational characteristics and tomography studies of the Northern Indian Ocean.