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Article: Convective boundary layer height measurement with wind profilers and comparison to cloud base
- Article from:
- Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright American Meteorological Society Dec 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
The depth of the atmospheric boundary layer is of interest in several different areas. such as chemistry, pollutant studies, and global modeling. In this research the authors describe and compare several different measurements of boundary layer depth. First, the authors use the standard measurement from radiosondes to confirm the validity of wind-profiler measurements, which use humidity gradients to estimate the boundary layer depth. A method for obtaining meaningful cloud-base altitudes is then presented, and the results are compared to the wind-profiler boundary layer heights. The authors find good agreement between the different types of measurement but see that the profiler ...