Methodology to determine the coupling of continental clouds with surface and boundary layer height under cloudy conditions from lidar and meteorological data

Su, Tianning; Zheng, Youtong; Li, Zhanqing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1453-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1453-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1453-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

Research article

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27 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 27 Jan 2022

Methodology to determine the coupling of continental clouds with surface and boundary layer height under cloudy conditions from lidar and meteorological data

Tianning Su, Youtong Zheng, and Zhanqing Li

Data sets

Field Campaign Data Products ARM Data Cente https://adc.arm.gov/discovery/#/results/site_code::sgp

Short summary

To enrich our understanding of coupling of continental clouds, we developed a novel methodology to determine cloud coupling state from a lidar and a suite of surface meteorological instruments. This method is built upon advancement in our understanding of fundamental boundary layer processes and clouds. As the first remote sensing method for determining the coupling state of low clouds over land, this methodology paves a solid ground for further investigating the coupled land–atmosphere system.