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Methodology to determine the coupling of continental clouds with surface and boundary layer height under cloudy conditions from lidar and meteorological data
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
Youtong Zheng
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University,
and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
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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.
To enrich our understanding of coupling of continental clouds, we developed a novel methodology...
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