A three-step method for estimating the mixing height using ceilometer data from the Helsinki testbed

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2172-2187

  eresmaa, Noora ^a   Härkönen, Jari ^a   Joffre, Sylvain M ^a   Schultz, David M ^a,b   Karppinen, Ari ^c   Kukkonen, Jaakko ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air quality; Algorithms; Lidars Lidar observations; Optimization; Parameterization; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL LAYERS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SETS; ERROR FUNCTION; HELSINKI; MIXING HEIGHT; ONE-STEP METHODS; RADIO SOUNDINGS; RADIOSOUNDING; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE LAYERS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; ESTIMATION; MIXING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; TESTBEDS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; LIDAR; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; VERTICAL PROFILE;

FINLAND; HELSINKI; VARSINAIS-SUOMI;

EID: 84872124367     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-058.1     Document Type: Article

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