PathfinderTURB: an automatic boundary layer algorithm. Development, validation and application to study the impact on in situ measurements at the Jungfraujoch

Poltera, Yann; Martucci, Giovanni; Collaud Coen, Martine; Hervo, Maxime; Emmenegger, Lukas; Henne, Stephan; Brunner, Dominik; Haefele, Alexander

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10051-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10051-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10051-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 16

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28 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 28 Aug 2017

PathfinderTURB: an automatic boundary layer algorithm. Development, validation and application to study the impact on in situ measurements at the Jungfraujoch

Yann Poltera, Giovanni Martucci, Martine Collaud Coen, Maxime Hervo, Lukas Emmenegger, Stephan Henne, Dominik Brunner, and Alexander Haefele

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RC1: 'Review acp-2016-962', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Apr 2017
- AC1: 'Answer to reviewer #2', Giovanni Martucci, 07 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Review of ``PathfinderTURB: an automatic boundary layer algorithm. Development, validation and application to study the impact on in-situ measurements at the Jungfraujoch.'' by Poltera et al., 2017', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Apr 2017
- AC2: 'Answer to Reviwer#1', Giovanni Martucci, 07 Jun 2017

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AR by Giovanni Martucci on behalf of the Authors (07 Jun 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Jul 2017) by Ernest Weingartner

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We present the PathfinderTURB algorithm for the analysis of ceilometer backscatter data and the real-time detection of the vertical structure of the planetary boundary layer. PathfinderTURB has been applied to 1 year of data measured by two ceilometers operated at two Swiss stations: the Aerological Observatory of Payerne on the Swiss plateau, and the Alpine Jungfraujoch observatory. The study shows that aerosols from the boundary layer significantly influence the air measured at Jungfraujoch.