Application and Testing of the Extended-Kalman-Filtering Technique for Determining the Planetary Boundary-Layer Height over Athens, Greece

We investigate the temporal evolution of the planetary boundary-layer (PBL) height over the basin of Athens, Greece, during a 6-year period (2011–2016), using data from a Raman lidar system. The range-corrected lidar signals are selected around local noon (1200 UTC) and midnight (0000 UTC), for a to...

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Published in:Boundary-layer meteorology 2020-07, Vol.176 (1), p.125-147
Main Authors: Kokkalis, Panagiotis, Alexiou, Dimitrios, Papayannis, Alexandros, Rocadenbosch, Francesc, Soupiona, Ourania, Raptis, Panagiotis-Ioannis, Mylonaki, Maria, Tzanis, Chris G., Christodoulakis, John
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Boundary layer height
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Growth rate
Height
Kalman filters
Lidar
Meteorology
Methods
Optical radar
Planetary evolution
Radiosonde data
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description We investigate the temporal evolution of the planetary boundary-layer (PBL) height over the basin of Athens, Greece, during a 6-year period (2011–2016), using data from a Raman lidar system. The range-corrected lidar signals are selected around local noon (1200 UTC) and midnight (0000 UTC), for a total of 332 cases: 165 days and 167 nights. In this dataset, the extended-Kalman filtering technique is applied and tested for the determination of the PBL height. Several well-established techniques for the PBL height estimation based on lidar data are also tested for a total of 35 cases. The lidar-derived PBL heights are compared to those derived from radiosonde data. The mean PBL height over Athens is found to be 1617 ± 324 m at 1200 UTC and 892 ± 130 m at 0000 UTC for the period examined, while the mean PBL-height growth rate is found to be 170 ± 64 m h −1 and 90 ± 17 m h −1 during daytime and night-time, respectively.
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