Acoustic remote sensing provides measurement of vertical profiles of the wind velocity vector in urban conditions up to an altitude of several hundred meters, where contact measurements involve difficulties. This article describes physical principles of a Doppler acoustic radar and presents characteristics of sonars (sodars) employed in the studies of a wind field over Moscow which are conducted jointly by the scientists of the Physics Faculty of Moscow University and the A. M. Obukhov Research Institute of Atmospheric Physics under RF Academy of Sciences. Preliminary results of sodar measurements of wind velocity at the center of Moscow have been presented.
$^1$Department of Physics of Atmosphere, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
$^2$A.M. Obukhov Research Institute of Physics of Atmosphere
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