Height of the boundary layer from lidar for June 29
Table of contents:
Height from individual runs
Map
of boundary layer height from lidar
Comparison
of high runs to 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: 7121722
Comparison
of profiles to downward-looking runs
Run
7 compared to profiles 5-9 30 37
Run
12 compared to profiles 21-23
Run
17 compared to profiles 31-34
Run
22 compared to profiles 3 40-42
Some thoughts:
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Excellent image of a jump on Run 7. Note the waves riding downstream of
the jump. The jump occurs at a topographic point. Smaller jumps apparent
at other coastal points.
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