Estimation of the atmospheric structure constants from airplane data

Abstract

Meteorological measurements in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere were carried out in the past by several high-flying airplanes. It is a common practice to use the temperature spectrum of the time series obtained from these measurements to compute an averaged value (over the flight path) of the temperature structure constant CT.2 In this paper time-frequency techniques are used to obtain an estimate for the local spectra of the temperature, which is utilized to obtain local estimates for CT.2 © 2004 American Meteorological Society.