A Method for Correcting Airborne Temperature Data for Sensor Response Time

Abstract

Equations are developed which describe 1) the airborne temperature instrumentation response to an arbitrary ambient temperature profile, for a two-term exponential system; and 2) a numerical scheme which corrects the sensor data for this lag. When in-cloud temperature fluctuations are of the same order as the instrument fidelity, as in some cumulus cloud penetrations, serious discrepancies may result between the ambient profile and the sensor response, making a correction desirable.