Acoustic Tomography of the Atmosphere
Vladimir Ostashev, NOAA ESRL, Physical Sciences Laboratory
Acoustic tomography of the atmosphere is based on measurements of travel times of sound propagation between different pairs of sources and receivers usually located a few meters above the ground on a horizontal scale of about 100 m. Then, the measured travel times are used as input parameters in an inverse algorithm for reconstruction of temperature and wind velocity fields. In this presentation, a short overview and current status of acoustic travel-time tomography of the atmosphere will be given. Furthermore, different inverse algorithms for reconstruction of temperature and velocity fields will be discussed, including a recently developed time-dependent stochastic inversion algorithm. The latter algorithm was used to reconstruct turbulent fields in acoustic tomography experiments carried out by scientists from University of Leipzig, Germany. Examples of the reconstructed fields will be presented. Finally, we will report on a progress in construction of an array for acoustic tomography of the atmosphere at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory.
This work is in collaboration with Sergey Vecherin Physics Department, New Mexico State University.
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