Height of the boundary layer from lidar for June 19
Table of contents:
Height from individual runs
Map
of boundary layer height from lidar
Comparison of lidar
height and aircraft profiles
Some thoughts on this flight
The height of the boundary layer can be estimated as the height of
the maximum gradient of the backscatter and was estimated from high
runs. You end up picking out the inversion base this way.
I rewrote routines to find the peak gradient in lidar backscatter that
were generously shared with me by Linda Strom.
BL height from downward looking runs: 4813
Comparison of profiles
and high runs:
Run 4 and profiles 9-14 and 16, a
and b
Run
13 and profiles 2 13 15 19
Run 8 and profiles 23-29, a
and b
Some thoughts:
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Boundary layer becomes strongly shallow near coast and at Point Conception.
Data on this page have not been published. If you use it please
credit the author, Kathleen Edwards, and the source (the Coastal Waves
96 group at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, and the Center for Coastal Studies.)
Please send comments or questions to me at kate@coast.ucsd.edu