Acoustic Remote Sensing Applications

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.