A Review of Techniques for Diagnosing the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height (ABLH) Using Aerosol Lidar Data

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 11; no. 13; p. 1590
• Main Authors: Dang, Ruijun, Yang, Yi, Hu, Xiao-Ming, Wang, Zhiting, Zhang, Shuwen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 04.07.2019
• Subjects: Aerodynamics; aerosol lidar; Aerosols; Air entrainment; Air masses; Air pollution; air quality; Aircraft; Atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric boundary layer height; Backscattering; Boundary layers; Concentration gradient; Dispersion; Entrainment; environmental models; extended Kalman Filter; Fluxes; Free atmosphere; gradient methods; Humidity; ideal profile fitting; Kinetic energy; Lidar; mathematical models; Meteorology; mixing; Outdoor air quality; Parameter estimation; Parameters; Pollutants; Pollution dispersion; Remote sensing; Remote sensing systems; Signal processing; Signal to noise ratio; Specific humidity; Temporal variations; Thermal boundary layer; Trace gases; troposphere; Turbulence; variance analysis; Vertical distribution; wavelet covariance transform; weather forecasting; Wind; United States > US

The height of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABLH) or the mixing layer height (MLH) is a key parameter characterizing the planetary boundary layer, and the accurate estimation of that is critically important for boundary layer related studies, which include air quality forecasts and numerical weath...