Atmospheric boundary layer height from ground-based remote sensing: a review of capabilities and limitations

S Kotthaus, JA Bravo-Aranda… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) defines the volume of air adjacent to the Earth's
surface for the dilution of heat, moisture, and trace substances. Quantitative knowledge on …

Scientific challenges to characterizing the wind resource in the marine atmospheric boundary layer

W Shaw, L Berg, M Debnath, G Deskos… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
With the increasing level of offshore wind energy investment, it is correspondingly important
to be able to accurately characterize the wind resource in terms of energy potential as well …

Spatial and seasonal variability of carbonaceous aerosol across Italy

S Sandrini, S Fuzzi, A Piazzalunga, P Prati… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper analyses elemental (EC), organic (OC) and total carbon (TC) concentration in PM
2.5 and PM 10 samples collected over the last few years within several national and …

Atmospheric boundary‐layer characteristics from ceilometer measurements. Part 1: A new method to track mixed layer height and classify clouds

S Kotthaus, CSB Grimmond - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The use of Automatic Lidars and Ceilometers (ALC) is increasingly extended beyond
monitoring cloud base height to the study of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) dynamics …

Study of the planetary boundary layer height in an urban environment using a combination of microwave radiometer and ceilometer

G de Arruda Moreira, JL Guerrero-Rascado… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) is an important part of the atmosphere that is
relevant in different atmospheric fields like pollutant dispersion, and weather forecasting. In …

Impact of mixing layer height on air quality in winter

BS Murthy, R Latha, A Tiwari, A Rathod, S Singh… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Air quality in Delhi is largely dependent on concentration of aerosol particulate matter with
aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2. 5). Diurnal variation of PM2. 5 is mainly …

Tailored algorithms for the detection of the atmospheric boundary layer height from common automatic lidars and ceilometers (Alc)

S Kotthaus, M Haeffelin, MA Drouin, JC Dupont… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
A detailed understanding of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) processes is key to improve
forecasting of pollution dispersion and cloud dynamics in the context of future climate …

Comparison of aerosol lidar retrieval methods for boundary layer height detection using ceilometer aerosol backscatter data

V Caicedo, B Rappenglück, B Lefer… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - amt.copernicus.org
Three algorithms for estimating the boundary layer heights are assessed: an aerosol
gradient method, a cluster analysis method, and a Haar wavelet method. Over 40 daytime …

Characterization of the atmospheric boundary layer in a narrow tropical valley using remote‐sensing and radiosonde observations and the WRF model: the Aburrá …

L Herrera‐Mejía, CD Hoyos - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The spatiotemporal evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), in a narrow, highly
complex terrain located in the Colombian Andes, is studied using radiosondes and remote …

Benchmarking of six cloud segmentation algorithms for ground-based all-sky imagers

M Hasenbalg, P Kuhn, S Wilbert, B Nouri… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The detection and segmentation of clouds in images taken by ground based cameras is of
utmost importance for a large number of applications including all-sky imager based …