A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy …

V Wulfmeyer, RM Hardesty, DD Turner… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A review of remote sensing technology for lower tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling
is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal‐vertical resolution. The …

Convective boundary layer heights over mountainous terrain—a review of concepts

SFJ De Wekker, M Kossmann - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Mountainous terrain exerts an important influence on the Earth's atmosphere and affects
atmospheric transport and mixing at a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. The …

[HTML][HTML] The AROME-France convective-scale operational model

Y Seity, P Brousseau, S Malardel… - Monthly Weather …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
After six years of scientific, technical developments and meteorological validation, the
Application of Research to Operations at Mesoscale (AROME-France) convective-scale …

An analysis of the performance of the UFAM pulsed Doppler lidar for observing the boundary layer

G Pearson, F Davies, C Collier - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The performance of the 1.5-μ m pulsed Doppler lidar, operated by the UK
Universities Facility for Atmospheric Measurement (UFAM) over a 51-day continuous and …

Development of a GNSS water vapour tomography system using algebraic reconstruction techniques

M Bender, G Dick, M Ge, Z Deng, J Wickert… - Advances in Space …, 2011 - Elsevier
A GNSS water vapour tomography system developed to reconstruct spatially resolved
humidity fields in the troposphere is described. The tomography system was designed to …

The airborne multi-wavelength water vapor differential absorption lidar WALES: system design and performance

M Wirth, A Fix, P Mahnke, H Schwarzer, F Schrandt… - Applied Physics B, 2009 - Springer
A high-performance airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar has been developed
during the past years. This system uses a four-wavelength/three-absorption line …

Current challenges in understanding and predicting transport and exchange in the atmosphere over mountainous terrain

M Lehner, MW Rotach - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
Coupling of the earth's surface with the atmosphere is achieved through an exchange of
momentum, energy, and mass in the atmospheric boundary layer. In mountainous terrain …

Atmospheric pollutant dispersion over complex terrain: Challenges and needs for improving air quality measurements and modeling

L Giovannini, E Ferrero, T Karl, MW Rotach, C Staquet… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pollutant dispersion processes over complex terrain are much more complicated than over
flat areas, as they are affected by atmospheric interactions with the orography at different …

Utilizing a storm-generating hotspot to study convective cloud transitions: The CACTI experiment

AC Varble, SW Nesbitt, P Salio… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign was
designed to improve understanding of orographic cloud life cycles in relation to surrounding …

The Convective and Orographically‐induced Precipitation Study (COPS): the scientific strategy, the field phase, and research highlights

V Wulfmeyer, A Behrendt, C Kottmeier… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Within the framework of the international field campaign COPS (Convective and
Orographically‐induced Precipitation Study), a large suite of state‐of‐the‐art meteorological …