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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2016.32.3.9

Estimate and Analysis of Planetary Boundary Layer Height (PBLH) using a Mobile Lidar Vehicle system  

Nam, Hyoung-Gu (High Impact Weather Research Center, Observation Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, KMA)
Choi, Won (High Impact Weather Research Center, Observation Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, KMA)
Kim, Yoo-Jun (High Impact Weather Research Center, Observation Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, KMA)
Shim, Jae-Kwan (High Impact Weather Research Center, Observation Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, KMA)
Choi, Byoung-Choel (High Impact Weather Research Center, Observation Research Division, National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, KMA)
Kim, Byung-Gon (Department of Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Gangneung-Wonju National University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.32, no.3, 2016 , pp. 307-321 More about this Journal
Abstract
Planetary Boundary Layer Height (PBLH) is a major input parameter for weather forecasting and atmosphere diffusion models. In order to estimate the sub-grid scale variability of PBLH, we need to monitor PBLH data with high spatio-temporal resolution. Accordingly, we introduce a LIdar observation VEhicle (LIVE), and analyze PBLH derived from the lidar loaded in LIVE. PBLH estimated from LIVE shows high correlations with those estimated from both WRF model ($R^2=0.68$) and radiosonde ($R^2=0.72$). However, PBLH from lidar tend to be overestimated in comparison with those from both WRF and radiosonde because lidar appears to detect height of Residual Layer (RL) as PBLH which is overall below near the overlap height (< 300 m). PBLH from lidar with 10 min time resolution shows typical diurnal variation since it grows up after sunrise and reaches the maximum after 2 hours of sun culmination. The average growth rate of PBLH during the analysis period (2014/06/26 ~ 30) is 1.79 (-2.9 ~ 5.7) m $min^{-1}$. In addition, the lidar signal measured from moving LIVE shows that there is very low noise in comparison with that from the stationary observation. The PBLH from LIVE is 1065 m, similar to the value (1150 m) derived from the radiosonde launched at Sokcho. This study suggests that LIVE can observe continuous and reliable PBLH with high resolution in both stationary and mobile systems.
Keywords
LIdar observation VEhicle (LIVE); Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL); Residual Layer (RL); growth rate;
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