Thickness of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above Dome A, Antarctica, during 2009 | |
Bonner, C. S.1; Ashley, M. C. B.1; Cui, X.2; Feng, L.3; Gong, X.2; Lawrence, J. S.1,4; Luong-Van, D. M.1; Shang, Z.5; Storey, J. W. V.1; Wang, L.3,6 | |
刊名 | PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC |
2010-09-01 | |
卷号 | 122期号:895页码:1122-1131 |
关键词 | SURFACE-LAYER SOUTH-POLE TURBULENCE SITE PLATEAU ASTRONOMY MONITOR |
ISSN号 | 0004-6280 |
英文摘要 | The domes, or local elevation maxima, on the Antarctic plateau provide a unique opportunity for ground-based astronomy in that the turbulent boundary layer is so thin that a telescope on a small tower can be in the free atmosphere, i.e., the portion of the atmosphere in which the turbulence is decoupled from the effect of the Earth's surface. There, it can enjoy a free atmosphere which itself appears to offer superior conditions to that of temperate sites. This breaks the problem of characterizing the turbulence at Antarctic plateau sites into two separate tasks: determining the variability, distribution and thickness of the boundary layer, and characterizing the free atmosphere. In this article we tackle the first of these tasks using a high-resolution, low minimum sample height sonic radar (SODAR) called Snodar that has been specifically designed to characterize the Antarctic boundary thickness and structure. Snodar delivers a vertical resolution of 0.9 m, with a minimum sampling height of 8 m. Snodar sampled the first 180 m of the atmosphere with 0.9 m resolution every 10 s at Dome A, Antarctica between 2009 February 4 and 2009 August 18. The median thickness of the boundary layer over this period was 13.9 m, with the 25th and 75th percentiles at 9.7 m and 19.7 m, respectively. The data collected from Dome A also show that, while the boundary layer can be stable for several hundred hours at a time, it can also be highly variable and must be sampled on the time scale of minutes to properly characterize its thickness. |
学科主题 | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences |
类目[WOS] | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
研究领域[WOS] | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
关键词[WOS] | SURFACE-LAYER ; SOUTH-POLE ; TURBULENCE ; SITE ; PLATEAU ; ASTRONOMY ; MONITOR |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000281324800012 |
公开日期 | 2011-11-23 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://159.226.72.40/handle/332002/1025] |
专题 | 紫金山天文台_分子云与恒星形成研究团组 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ New S Wales, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 2.Nanjing Insititute Astron Opt & Technol, Nanjing 210042, Peoples R China 3.Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 4.Macquarie Univ, Dept Phys, N Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia 5.Tianjin Normal Univ, Tianjin 300074, Peoples R China 6.Texas A&M Univ, George P & Cynthia W Mitchell Inst Fundamental Ph, Dept Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA 7.Polar Res Inst China, Shanghai 200136, Peoples R China 8.Natl Astron Observ, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bonner, C. S.,Ashley, M. C. B.,Cui, X.,et al. Thickness of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above Dome A, Antarctica, during 2009[J]. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC,2010,122(895):1122-1131. |
APA | Bonner, C. S..,Ashley, M. C. B..,Cui, X..,Feng, L..,Gong, X..,...&Zhu, Z..(2010).Thickness of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above Dome A, Antarctica, during 2009.PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC,122(895),1122-1131. |
MLA | Bonner, C. S.,et al."Thickness of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Above Dome A, Antarctica, during 2009".PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 122.895(2010):1122-1131. |
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