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QUALITY ASSURANCE HANDBOOK FOR AIR POLLUTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS: VOLUME IV - METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS (REVISED - AUGUST 1994)
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Templeman, B. QUALITY ASSURANCE HANDBOOK FOR AIR POLLUTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS: VOLUME IV - METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS (REVISED - AUGUST 1994). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-95/050 (NTIS PB95199782), 1995.
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Procedures on installing, acceptance testing, operating, maintaining and quality assuring three types of ground-based, upper air meteorological measurement systems are described. he limitations and uncertainties in precision and accuracy measurements associated with these systems are also presented. he three systems are: ODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging), RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging), and RADAR/RASS (RADAR/Radio Acoustic Sounding System). ODAR uses acoustic pulses to measure the horizontal and vertical components of the wind profile as well as the height above ground level of the atmospheric inversion layer. ADAR uses height above ground level of the atmospheric inversion layer. ADAR uses electromagnetic pulses to measure the horizontal and vertical components of the wind profile. ADAR/RASS, on the other hand, combines acoustic and electromagnetic pulses which yields data on air temperature, wind speed and the horizontal and vertical components of the wind profile. his document will be added to Volume IV of EPA's QA Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems (EPA/600/R-94/038d).
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