Transcript Lecture 1 - University of Manchester

Lecture 1
Geraint Vaughan
Radiosondes
Vaisala
RS80
Vaisala
RS92
Launching a
radiosonde
European radiosonde stations (launch
00 and 12 UTC)
Data available from:
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
stratosphere
T
stratosphere
T
troposphere
troposphere
I
stratosphere
stratosphere
Examples of
radiosonde
profiles:
temperature
vs height
T
troposphere
T
troposphere
T : tropopause;
I
I: inversion (top of
boundary layer in this case)
Examples of
radiosonde
profiles:
potential
temperature vs
height
Note: θ always increases
with height – we can use θ
as a vertical coordinate in
the stratosphere