Design and capability analysis of meteorologic radiosonde for turbulence

A new meteorologic radiosonde for turbulence was introduced, which coupled a microthermal sensor to a conventional meteorologic radiosonde. It could obtain two-way refractive index structure parameter, general meteorologic parameters (temperature, humidity and pressure), temperature spectrum etc. synchronously. Experiments of results in Hefei and Changchun indicate the system can achieve high precision and stability. The system noise detected in the dynamic circumstance of high altitude low temperature corresponds with that in static state normal temperature on the ground. The equivalent refractive index structure parameter resulted from the system noise in dynamic state is less than 2×10-18 m-2/3. This radiosonde can meet the need of atmospheric optical turbulence