Methods comparision of estimating optical turbulence profile using conventional meteorology parameters

Using high resolution radiosonde data from SPARC data center of America, employing the Tatarski formula, this paper compares the refractive index structure constant calculated by the outer scale method with the one by thd method of coupling turbulent energy dissipation rate with conventional meteorology parameters. It proves indirectly the reasonableness of Sterenborg’s chosing 1 m as the outer scale. Besides, it compares the refractive index structure constant with two different empirical formulas of outer scale from Coulman and Dewan. The analysis indicates that the two methods can both estimate the refractive index structure constant. As the observation of turbulent dissipate rate is very difficult, the reasonableness and the representativeness of the analytic expression need testing b