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Weekly cycle of meteorological parameters over Moscow region

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Analysis of aerological radiosonde data in the period of 2000–2009 shows that, in the warm period of the year, the air temperature over Moscow region is higher in the first half of the week than in the second half. The statistically significant (at the α = 0.05 significance level) air temperature differences between Tuesday and Friday, as well as between Wednesday and Friday, reach 0.8°C and are manifested in the atmospheric boundary layer (according to nighttime observations) and in the middle troposphere (according to daytime observations). In the upper troposphere, the weekly temperature cycle positively correlates with the weekly cycle of air pressure, while in the lower troposphere, it positively correlates with the weekly cycle of water vapor content. In the upper troposphere, the southerly wind is strengthened in the middle of the week, and northerly wind is strengthened on the weekend. In the boundary layer, the temperature changes induce the weekly cycle of the static stability of the atmosphere.

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  1. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Pyzhevskii per. 3, Moscow, Russia

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Sitnov, 2010, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 431, No. 5, pp. 685–691.

Submitted by Academician G.S. Golitsyn November 26, 2009

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Sitnov, S.A. Weekly cycle of meteorological parameters over Moscow region. Dokl. Earth Sc. 431, 507–513 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X10040203

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