The Turbulent Eddy Profiler (TEP) is a volume-imaging 915 MHz radar designed for atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence studies. The TEP system is a pulsed, phased-array radar that uses digital beamforming techniques in order to provide four-dimensional images of C/sub n//sup 2/ fluctuations and wind vectors on grid scales comparable to those of large-eddy simulations (LES). In this paper the authors present results from an August 1996 deployment of TEP, including preliminary comparisons of TEP data and LES results. Vertical profiles of C/sub n//sup 2/ fluctuations are presented for a highly convective boundary layer. Those results are compared to published data simulated with LES from similar conditions. The measured variability of C/sub n//sup 2/ agrees well in the high signal-to-noise regions of the TEP data.
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机译：湍流涡流廓线仪（TEP）是一种体积成像915 MHz雷达，设计用于大气边界层湍流研究。 TEP系统是一种脉冲相控阵雷达，它使用数字波束成形技术来提供C / sub n // sup 2 /涨落和风矢量的三维图像，其网格尺度与大涡模拟相当（ LES）。本文作者介绍了TEP 1996年8月部署的结果，包括TEP数据和LES结果的初步比较。对于高度对流的边界层，给出了C / sub n // sup 2 /涨落的垂直剖面。将这些结果与使用LES在相似条件下模拟的已发布数据进行比较。 C / sub n // sup 2 /的测量变异性在TEP数据的高信噪比区域非常吻合。
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