Ceilometers as planetary boundary layer height detectors and a corrective tool for COSMO and IFS models

Uzan, Leenes; Egert, Smadar; Khain, Pavel; Levi, Yoav; Vadislavsky, Elyakom; Alpert, Pinhas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12177-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12177-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12177-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

Research article

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27 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 27 Oct 2020

Ceilometers as planetary boundary layer height detectors and a corrective tool for COSMO and IFS models

Leenes Uzan, Smadar Egert, Pavel Khain, Yoav Levi, Elyakom Vadislavsky, and Pinhas Alpert

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'AC1', Leenes Uzan, 16 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Review Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'AC2', Leenes Uzan, 16 Jan 2020

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AR by Leenes Uzan on behalf of the Authors (19 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Feb 2020) by Timothy J. Dunkerton

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (13 Feb 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (04 Mar 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (05 Apr 2020)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (17 Jun 2020) by Timothy J. Dunkerton

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Sep 2020) by Timothy J. Dunkerton

AR by Leenes Uzan on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Detection of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) height is crucial to various fields, from air pollution assessment to weather prediction. We examined the diurnal summer PBL height by eight ceilometers in Israel, radiosonde profiles, the global IFS, and regional COSMO models. Our analysis utilized the bulk Richardson number method, the parcel method, and the wavelet covariance transform method. A novel correction tool to improve model results against in-situ ceilometer measurements is introduced.