A study of low level jet characteristics using a sodar-RASS profiling system

Author

Helmis, C.G. ; Halios, Ch.H. ; Asimakopoulos, D.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Phys., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2811

Abstract

The development and characteristics of low level jets (LLJs) over the western site of a knife edge mountain in the Greater Athens area, Greece, is presented. The data were collected for a five-month period, with a commercial sodar-RASS profiling system that was placed at the foot of Mount Hymettus (1026 m) which is located on the north-south axis of the eastern side of the city of Athens. The LLJ cases were classified into three main categories according to the possible forcing mechanism. The classification was based on the background flow, the diurnal course of solar radiation and cloudiness and the atmospheric stability. In order to reveal the mechanism that is responsible for the LLJ occurrences, the non-Coriolis forcing at LLJ heights has been calculated. A simple arithmetic model was applied and the results were compared with experimental findings.

Keywords

atmospheric movements; atmospheric techniques; meteorological radar; remote sensing by radar; sonar; wind; Greater Athens; Greece; Mount Hymettus; atmospheric stability; background flow; city; cloudiness; diurnal solar radiation; forcing mechanism; knife edge mountain; low level jet characteristics; nonCoriolis forcing; numerical model; sodar-RASS profiling system; Arithmetic; Atmospheric modeling; Cities and towns; Foot; Land surface temperature; Ocean temperature; Physics; Solar radiation; Stability; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026783

Filename

1026783