Articles | Volume 10, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2969-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2969-2017
Research article
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18 Aug 2017
Research article |  | 18 Aug 2017

Mixing layer height as an indicator for urban air quality?

Alexander Geiß, Matthias Wiegner, Boris Bonn, Klaus Schäfer, Renate Forkel, Erika von Schneidemesser, Christoph Münkel, Ka Lok Chan, and Rainer Nothard

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Based on measurements with a ceilometer and from an air quality network, the relationship between the mixing layer height (MLH) and near surface concentrations of pollutants was investigated for summer 2014 in Berlin. It was found that the heterogeneity of the concentrations exceeds the differences due to different MLH retrievals. In particular for PM10 it seems to be unrealistic to find correlations between MLH and concentrations representative for an entire metropolitan area in flat terrain.