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Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-1193-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-1193-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Research article
 | 
10 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 10 Mar 2025

Turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rate estimated from a WindCube Doppler lidar and the LQ7 1.3 GHz radar wind profiler in the convective boundary layer

Hubert Luce and Masanori Yabuki

Data sets

Boundary Layer Radar (BLR)/Lower Troposphere Radar (LTR)/LQ7 Observation Data (Version 02.0212) Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere of Kyoto University http://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/blr/shigaraki/data/

Ceilometer data Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere of Kyoto University https://www2.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mu/ceilometer/

All Sky Camera images Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere of Kyoto University https://www2.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/surface/shigaraki/camera/

The Japan Meteorological Agency's (JMA) Grid Point Values (GPV) generated from the Meso Scale Model (MSM) Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere of Kyoto University http://database.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

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Over a 3-week period, simultaneous measurements were conducted using a Doppler lidar and a 1.3 GHz radar wind profiler in Japan. Although the instruments had no range overlap, turbulence kinetic energy dissipation rates were estimated through various methods in convective boundary layers. Hourly averaged estimates showed good agreement, within a factor of approximately 2, suggesting that both instruments and methods provide consistent dissipation rate values.
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