Comparison Among the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height Estimated From Three Different Tracers

Gregori de Arruda Moreira; Fábio Juliano da Silva Lopes; Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado; Pablo Ortiz-Amezcua; Alberto Cazorla; Amauri Pereira de Oliveira; Eduardo Landulfo; Lucas Alados-Arboledas

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202023703009

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EPJ Web of Conferences 237, 03009 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023703009

Comparison Among the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height Estimated From Three Different Tracers

Gregori de Arruda Moreira¹^,2^,3^,4^*, Fábio Juliano da Silva Lopes³, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado², Pablo Ortiz-Amezcua², Alberto Cazorla², Amauri Pereira de Oliveira¹, Eduardo Landulfo³ and Lucas Alados-Arboledas²

¹ Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science, São Paulo, Brazil
² Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA-CEAMA), Granada, Spain
³ Institute of Energetic and Nuclear Research (IPEN), São Paulo, Brazil
⁴ Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP), São Paulo, Brazil

^* Email: gregori.moreira@usp.br

Published online: 7 July 2020

Abstract

The Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) is the lowermost part of the troposphere. In this work, we analysed the combination of ABL height estimated continuously by three different remote sensing systems: a ceilometer, a Doppler lidar and a passive Microwave Radiometer, during a summer campaign, which was held in Granada from June to August 2016. This study demonstrates as the combined utilization of remote sensing systems, based on different tracers, can provide detailed information about the height of ABL and their sublayers.

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