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Marcel E. Tschudin wrote:
> The U.S. Standard Atmosphere Supplements, 1966 (possibly also in a newer
> edition) includes tables of temperature, pressure, density etc. for five
> northern latitudes (15, 30, 45, 60, 75), for summer (July?) and winter
> (January?) conditions as a function of height.

A local library has the *1976* US Standard Atmosphere publication; I've
even checked it out a couple times. Can't remember if it had temperature
profiles for different latitudes. I have to visit that library by the
30th, and at that time I will look.

Maybe you would like to see some actual temperature profiles. Try
putting "upper air observations", "upper air soundings", "radiosode",
"rawinsode" etc. in a search engine. You'll get hits like this:

http://www.met.fsu.edu/CUDOS/rawin.html

Here's another site. Their last 10 balloon soundings are online. The
"airfield sensor data" link shows the current surface conditions,
including air refractivity. The listed value seems to be multiplied by 1
million.

http://www.edwards.af.mil/weather/obs.htm

   

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