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During July and August 1987, the project “VISAS”, short for “Vienna Summer Aerosol Study”, was carried out. Its purpose was to determine the chemical and meteorological conditions in the summertime boundary layer over the city of Vienna esp. during anticyclonic conditions. For the meteorological measurements, a SODAR and a tethersonde supplemented the routine network. Three examples of the SODAR’s performance in detecting mixing heights are shown; these are compared with mixing heights derived from the tethersonde and from radiosonde temperature profiles. Often, there is a good agreement between the three systems; differences and failures can be explained meteorologically.
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Piringer, M. (1988). The Determination of Mixing Heights by Sodar in an Urban Environment. In: Grefen, K., Löbel, J. (eds) Environmental Meteorology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2939-5_31
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