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Results are presented which show that reasonably accurate estimates of the atmospheric temperature structure paparmeter C T 2 can be derived from the returns of a monostatic acoustic sounder in both stable and convective atmospheric conditions.
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Asimakopoulos, D.N., Cole, R.S., Caughey, S.J. et al. A quantitative comparison between acoustic sounder returns and the direct measurement of atmospheric temperature fluctuations. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 10, 137–147 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00229281
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