Temperature Profilers
Revolutionary technology for remote measurements of the air temperature profile up to 1000 meters
Measuring the temperature of the atmosphere in the 1000 m of the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) closest to the ground is desirable in a number of application in the science of meteorology and environment. As altitude increases the air temperature falls with a theoretical rate of approximately 6.5ºC per 1,000m, but this is influenced by a number of factors.
Under ‘normal’ conditions pollutant gases, aerosols and fine particulates tend to rise into the atmosphere and disperse. However, in the case of a temperature inversion a layer of warmer air can trap the pollutants close to the ground. This leads to poor air quality events that can last for many hours, until the inversion breaks up.
By monitoring the atmospheric temperature profile in real-time it is possible to predict the development and break-up of inversions and actions can be taken to minimise the environmental and health impacts. Temperature profiles are an essential input for accurate plume and dispersion modelling and for predicting air quality in urban and industrial environments.
The MTP 5 family of Meteorological Temperature Profilers is designed and manufactured by SKB ATTEX Ltd. in Moscow and distributed exclusively by Kipp & Zonen. The instruments are specifically designed to provide real-time PBL measurements with all-weather, unattended operation and automatic self-calibration. They require no specialist knowledge to install, maintain and operate or to analyse the data, and are ideal for network use.
The WindowsTM software that comes with every MTP 5 runs on a PC connected to the instrument and controls system configuration, measurement, data storage, processing, diagnostics and auto-calibration. The data is stored as daily ASCII files for easy export to spreadsheets. After each scan, a graph of the temperature profile is shown on-screen. Daily graphs of temperatures can also be displayed.
MTP 5-H
MTP 5-H is the original member of the MTP 5 family of temperature profilers. It makes measurements up to 600m above the instruments and gives the same performance in all weather conditions
MTP 5-HE
The MTP 5-HE is developed for locations where the urban / industrial area lies in a valley or close to mountains and inversions up to 1000m can cause problems.
MTP 5-P
The MTP 5 Polar provides significantly improved altitude resolution, down to 10m in the first 100m range. This is important for measurements over snow and ice, but also over desert surfaces.
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