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Experience in measuring the wind-velocity profile in an urban environment with a Doppler sodar

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The experience of long-term acoustic remote measurements of vertical wind-velocity profiles at two sites in Moscow is reported. Equipment performances and measurement conditions are described. Acoustic measurement features characteristic of a large city with high traffic noise and spurious reflections from buildings are discussed. Criteria and techniques of rejecting noisy and false signals are described as well as the methods of statistical data processing suitable in the case of a signal-to-noise ratio rapidly varying in time and a significant number of rejected signals. Preliminary results of measurements are given.

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  1. Moscow State University, Vorob’evy gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    V. P. Yushkov & G. A. Kurbatov

  2. Oboukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 3, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    M. A. Kallistratova, R. D. Kouznetsov & V. F. Kramar

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Yushkov, M.A. Kallistratova, P.D. Kuznetsov, G A. Kurbatov, V.F. Kramar, 2007, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 193–205.

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Yushkov, V.P., Kallistratova, M.A., Kouznetsov, R.D. et al. Experience in measuring the wind-velocity profile in an urban environment with a Doppler sodar. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 43, 168–180 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433807020041

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