Atmospheric Sounding on Civil Engineering applications 1

[PantheraX]

Greetings to all fellow engineers!

I'm currently doing a project on utilising satellite-based atmospheric sounding profiles (e.g. parameters such as temperature, pressure, humidity) for civil engineering applications.

I've been doing up some reading and realised that there has been minimal literature on such studies, probably due to the fact that atmospheric profiles are mostly high up above Earth's surface and may not have direct implications on civil engineering aspects.

So I'm wondering if anyone has come across any field of study that encompasses such? It will be most helpful!

Thanks all and have a great day.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

There is a "Standard Atmosphere" that is used for design work for various high altitude aeronautical equipment. Here is more about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Standard_Atmosphere

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphere

Fields that use this information include Aeronautics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautics

and Flight Medicine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_medicine

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[BigInch]

The only direct impact I can think of is to coordinate determinations by GPS, the Loran, star sights, and altitudes, especially if estimated by atmospheric pressure. Most other civil stuff is usually more oriented pretty close to the surface.

Independent events are seldomly independent.

 

[bimr]

There are two types of satellites from which it is possible to receive data: orbiting satellites and geostationary satellites. Geostationary satellites stay in a fixed place in the sky, and the data can be received all the time. However, they are further away so their data gathering abilities are less. You will need a dish antenna and some quite expensive equipment to receive data from them.

Orbiting satellites are only a few hundred kilometres above the Earth's surface. They move all the time, so data can only be received when they are above your horizon. Being closer to the Earth the data provided will show a smaller area in more detail.

The weather industry makes use of the data, try that discipline for more information.

It does seem practical to attempt to obtain precise data from a moving satellite that may or may not be overhead for hours at a time.