Fig. 1. Spatial location and information on the rawinsonde observation sites and LDAPS grid (black soild lines).
Fig. 2. Scatter plot of planetary boundary layer height from rawinsonde vs. LDAPS in a) Daegwallyeong and b) Sokcho. c) cumulative distribution function of planetary boundary layer height from rawinsonde (OBS) and LDAPS (LDPS) in Daegwallyeong and Sokcho.
Fig. 3. Vertical profiles of virtual potential temperature (θv), mixing ratio (Q), saturation mixing ratio (Qs), Wind speed (WS), and Richardson number on clear day (a, c) and before precipitation (b, d) from rawinsonde in Daegwallyeong (a, b) and Sokcho (c, d). In this figures, yellow and blue cross dot line is PBLH from LDAPS and rawinsonde, respectively.
Fig. 4. Diurnal mean values of PBLH from rawinsonde and LDAPS. The bar is bias mean between LDAPS and rawinsonde.
Fig. 5. Vertical profile of average (solid line; rawinsonde, dashed line; LDAPS) of temperature, relativity humidity, and wind speed on the a) absolute error less than 10%, b) absolute error greater than 90% in Daegwallyeong and Sokcho (c; ~10%, d; 90%~).
Fig. 6. The frequency of planetary boundary layer type from LDAPS.
Fig. 7. Vertical profile of average(solid line; rawinsonde, dashed line; LDAPS) of temperature, relativity humidity, and wind speed by planetary boundary layer type a) 1, b) 2, c) 3, d) 4, e) 5, f) 6, and g) 7 in Daegwallyeong.
Fig. 8. Same as Fig. 7 in Sokcho.
Table 1. Specifications of rawinsonde (M10).
Table 2. Diurnal mean, bias mean and RMSE of PBLH estimated from rawinsonde and LDAPS in Daegwallyeong and Sokcho.
Table 3. Bias and RMSE of temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed separated by PBLH absolute error range between rawinsonde and LDAPS in Daegwallyeong.
Table 4. Same as Table 2 in Sokcho.
Table 5. Summary of LDAPS boundary layer types 1 to 7 (from Boutle et al., 2015).
Table 6. Average, bias and RMSE of PBLH by PBL type in Daegwallyeong and Sokcho.
Table 7. Bias and RMSE of temperature, relative humidity and wind speed by PBL type in Daegwallyeong.
Table 8. Same as Table 4 in Sokcho.
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