Height of the boundary layer from lidar for June 23
Table of contents:
Height from individual runs
Map
of boundary layer height from lidar
Comparison of profiles
to downward looking runs
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: 4562324
Comparison of profiles
and high runs:
Run
23 and profiles 36 35 30
Run
24 and profiles 39 38 37 31
Run
6 and profiles 1-4
Some thoughts:
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Boundary layer height is not uniform, and is influenced by cloud.
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