Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6675-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6675-2020
Research article
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09 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2020

A novel lidar gradient cluster analysis method of nocturnal boundary layer detection during air pollution episodes

Yinchao Zhang, Su Chen, Siying Chen, He Chen, and Pan Guo

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ED: Publish as is (17 Oct 2020) by Daniel Perez-Ramirez
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Short summary
Air pollution has an important impact on human health, climatic patterns, and the ecological environment. The complexity of the nocturnal boundary layer (NBL), combined with its strong physio-chemical effect, induces worse polluted episodes. Therefore, we present a new approach named cluster analysis of gradient method (CA-GM) to overcome the multilayer structure and remove the fluctuation of NBL height using raw data resolution.