Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7341-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7341-2021
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

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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.
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