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

Abstract

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.