Evaluation of convective boundary layer height estimates using radars operating at different frequency bands

Franck, Anna; Moisseev, Dmitri; Vakkari, Ville; Leskinen, Matti; Lampilahti, Janne; Kerminen, Veli-Matti; O'Connor, Ewan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7341-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7341-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7341-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

Research article

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24 Nov 2021

Research article |

| 24 Nov 2021

Evaluation of convective boundary layer height estimates using radars operating at different frequency bands

Anna Franck, Dmitri Moisseev, Ville Vakkari, Matti Leskinen, Janne Lampilahti, Veli-Matti Kerminen, and Ewan O'Connor

Data sets

Aerosol particle formation in the upper residual layer: dataset Janne Lampilahti, Katri Leino, Antti Manninen, Pyry Poutanen, Anna Franck, Maija Peltola, Paula Hietala, Lisa Beck, Lubna Dada, Lauriane Quéléver, Ronja Öhrnberg, Ying Zhou, Madeleine Ekblom, Ville Vakkari, Sergej Zilitinkevich, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Tuukka Petäjä, and Markku Kulmala https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4063662

Short summary

We proposed a method to derive a convective boundary layer height, using insects in radar observations, and we investigated the consistency of these retrievals among different radar frequencies (5, 35 and 94 GHz). This method can be applied to radars at other measurement stations and serve as additional way to estimate the boundary layer height during summer. The entrainment zone was also observed by the 5 GHz radar above the boundary layer in the form of a Bragg scatter layer.