Satellite monitoring of atmospheric temperature profiles and cloud cover over the Yakutsk EAS array and the TAIGA observatory

• Main Authors: Lagutin, Anatoly A., Volkov, Nikolay V., Zhukov, Andrey P., Makushev, Konstantin M., Maslov, Alexander A., Mordvin, Egor Yu., Raikin, Roman I., Serebryakova, Tatyana L., Sinitsin, Vladimir V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2019
• Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics astro-ph.EP; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; Space Physics physics.space-ph; FOS Physical sciences; Yakutsk; taiga
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1905.06694; https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06694

We consider the problem of night-time atmosphere monitoring at the locations of the Yakutsk EAS array and the TAIGA observatory for the annual October-April period of observations at these facilities. It is shown that the use of data from instruments aboard Terra, Aqua, Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 satellites, received by the ground stations of the Altai State University, Russia, and processed to Level 2 (retrieval of geophysical parameters of the atmosphere), gives the possibility of the near-real-time monitoring observations of the cloud cover structure and the temperature profiles at night with a spatial resolution and a frequency sufficient for meteorological correction of the detector readings. : 7 pages, 6 figures, 26th Extended European Cosmic Ray Symposium