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Comparison of temperature and wind profiles between ground-based remote sensing observations and numerical weather prediction model in complex Alpine topography: the Meiringen campaign
Alexandre Bugnard
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Martine Collaud Coen
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Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Maxime Hervo
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Daniel Leuenberger
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Marco Arpagaus
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Samuel Monhart
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
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Martine Collaud Coen, Elisabeth Andrews, Alessandro Bigi, Giovanni Martucci, Gonzague Romanens, Frédéric P. A. Vogt, and Laurent Vuilleumier
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Short summary
Temperature (T) and wind profiles were measured by a Doppler wind lidar and a microwave radiometer in Meiringen in a medium-sized Alpine valley. Ground-based T inversions and thermal winds were studied during the 10 months of the campaign. The comparison between the observations and the COSMO-1E model provides good model performance for monthly climatologies. T inversions are however frequently missed, and important differences for particular cases are found, especially for foehn events.
Temperature (T) and wind profiles were measured by a Doppler wind lidar and a microwave...
