Determination and climatology of the planetary boundary layer height above the Swiss plateau by in situ and remote sensing measurements as well as by the COSMO-2 model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 13205-13221

  Collaud Coen, M ^a   Praz, C ^a,b   Haefele, A ^a   Ruffieux, D ^a   Kaufmann, P ^a   Calpini, B ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RICHARDSON NUMBER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84918591607     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-13205-2014     Document Type: Article

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