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

Collaud Coen, M.; Praz, C.; Haefele, A.; Ruffieux, D.; Kaufmann, P.; Calpini, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13205-2014

Articles | Volume 14, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13205-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-13205-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 23

Research article

|

11 Dec 2014

Research article |

| 11 Dec 2014

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

M. Collaud Coen, C. Praz, A. Haefele, D. Ruffieux, P. Kaufmann, and B. Calpini

Download

Final revised paper (published on 11 Dec 2014)
Preprint (discussion started on 12 Jun 2014)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC C4275: '2014-314: Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jun 2014
- AC C8426: 'Collaud Coen et al., Reply to the first anonymous referee', Martine Collaud Coen, 23 Oct 2014
RC C7035: 'Comments on Coen et al. (2014, ACPD)', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Sep 2014
- AC C8433: 'M. Collaud Coen et al., Reply to the third anonymous referee', Martine Collaud Coen, 23 Oct 2014

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Martine Collaud Coen on behalf of the Authors (23 Oct 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Nov 2014) by Jui-Yuan Christine Chiu

Short summary

An operational planetary boundary layer height detection method with several remote sensing instruments (wind profiler, Raman lidar, microwave radiometer) and algorithms (Parcel and bulk Richardson number methods, surface-based temperature inversion, aerosol and humidity gradient analysis) was validated against radio sounding. A comparison with the numerical weather prediction model COSMO-2 and the seasonal cycles of the day- and nighttime PBL for two stations on the Swiss plateau are presented.