Virtual temperature
Measurement Categories: Atmospheric State
Description: The virtual temperature Tv = T(1 + rv/{epsilon}), where rv is the mixing ratio, and {epsilon} is the ratio of the gas constants of air and water vapor ( 0.622).
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Instruments that produce the measurement
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- External Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- Airborne Research Australia Cessna 404 (CESSNA-404-ARA)
- Airborne Research Australia Dimona Aircraft Laser Altimeter and Fluxes (ARA-DIMONA)
- Carbon Dioxide Flux Measurement Systems (CO2FLX)
- Microwave Radiometer Profiler (MWRP)
- Radar Wind Profiler (50 MHz) (50RWP)
- Radar Wind Profiler (915 MHz) (915RWP)
Value-Added Products (VAPs) including the measurement
- rwptemp - Radar Wind Profilers (RWP), 50 and 915 MHZ: virtual temperature profiles
Datastreams including the measurement
- (50RWP) Radar Wind Profiler (50 MHz) Datastreams
- 50rwptemp - 50-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP50): virtual temperature profile data
- 50rwptempcon - 50-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP50): consensus temperature data
- 50rwptempmom - 50-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RSP50): temperature moments
- (915RWP) Radar Wind Profiler (915 MHz) Datastreams
- 915rwptemp - 915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP915): virtual temperature profile data
- 915rwptempcon - 915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP915): temperature consensus data
- 915rwptempmom - 915-MHz Radar Wind Profiler/RASS (RWP915): temperature moments
- (CO2FLX) Carbon Dioxide Flux Measurement Systems Datastreams
- 30co2flx25m - Eddy Correlation CO2 Flux Data: 25 m samples, 30-min stats
- 30co2flx4m - Eddy Correlation CO2 Flux Data: 4 m samples, 30-min stats
- 30co2flx4mmet - Eddy Correlation CO2 Flux Data: 4 m samples, meteorological data, 30-min stats
- 30co2flx60m - Eddy Correlation CO2 Flux Data: 60 m samples, 30-min avg
- (MWRP) Microwave Radiometer Profiler Datastreams
- mwrp - Microwave Radiometer data (MWR Profiles - QME), water vapor, temp, cloud liquid water, precip water retrievals
- (RUC) Rapid Update Cycle Model Data Datastreams
- fslruc60 - Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model: FSL output, 60 km resolution
- (WPDN) Wind Profiler Demo Network Datastreams
- 06fslwpdnrass - Wind Profiler Demo Network (WPDN): 6-min RASS data
- 60fslwpdnrass - Wind Profiler Demo Network (WPDN): RASS data, 60-min
- 60wpdnrass - Wind Profiler Demo Network (WPDN): RASS virtual temperature data, 60-min