Abstract
Coincident profiles from the space-borne and ground-based lidar measurements provide a unique opportunity to estimate the planetary boundary layer height (PBLH). In this study, PBLHs derived from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) were assessed by comparing them with those obtained from the ground-based lidar at Seoul National University (SNU) in Korea for both day and night from 2006 to 2019, and sounding data. CALIOP-derived PBLHs using wavelet covariance transform (WCT) are generally higher than those derived from the SNU lidar for both day and night. The difference in PBLH tends to increase as the signal-to-noise ratio for CALIOP decreases. The difference also increases as aerosol optical depth increases, implying that the PBLH estimated from CALIOP could be higher than that determined from the SNU lidar because of the signal attenuation within the aerosol layer under optically thick aerosol layer conditions. The higher PBLH for CALIOP in this study is mainly attributed to multiple aerosol layers. After eliminating multilayer cases, the PBLHs estimated from both the lidars showed significantly improved agreement: a mean difference of 0.09 km (R = 0.81) for daytime and 0.25 km (R = 0.51) for nighttime. The results from this study suggest that PBL detection using CALIOP is reliable for daytime if multilayer cases are removed. For nighttime, PBLHs derived from the SNU lidar and CALIOP showed a relatively large difference in frequency distribution compared with sounding data. It suggests that further investigations are needed for nighttime PBLHs, such as investigations about discriminating the residual layer and the difference between lidar-derived PBLH based on the aerosol layer and thermally derived PBLH from radiosonde data for the stable boundary layer during the nighttime.
Highlights
The planetary boundary layer (PBL), as the lowest part of the troposphere, plays an important role in the exchanges of energy, momentum, moisture, gases, and aerosols between the earth surface and free atmosphere [1]
Among the 540 collocated data pairs of the Seoul National University (SNU) lidar and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder SatelliteObservation (CALIPSO) tracks (Figure 1), 1), for daytime profiles selected for comparison after
planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) were determined from ground-based SNU lidar and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) measurements for comparison using the wavelet covariance transform (WCT) method
Summary
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