Planetary Boundary Layer Height Retrievals from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) around the US Southern Great Plains and the Eastern North Atlantic
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University of Maryland, College Park
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Goddard Space Flight Center
Description
Planetary Boundary Layer Height (PBLH) retrievals in kilometers from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) around the DOE ARM US Southern Great Plains (SGP) and the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA), using a modified version of the Different Thermo-Dynamics Stability (DTDS) algorithm. Quality control Flags are included as follows:
- 0 = 'Good Quality'
- 1 = 'Mediate Quality'
- 2 = 'Bad Quality'
In addition, -999 values in the dataset represent no data.
The PBLH for daytime denoised CATS photon counts at SGP is named: "daytime-denoised-dtds-pblh-sgp.csv"
The PBLH for the original daytime and nighttime data at SGP and ENA, without denoising the data, are named: "original-cats-dtds-pblh-daytime-nighttime-sgp.csv" and "original-cats-dtds-pblh-daytime-nighttime-ena.csv"
References:
Roldán-Henao, N., Yorks, J., Su, T., Selmer, P., & Li, Z. (2024). Statistically Resolved Planetary Boundary Layer Height Diurnal Variability Using Spaceborne Lidar Data. Remote Sensing.
Su, T., Li, Z., & Kahn, R. (2020). A new method to retrieve the diurnal variability of planetary boundary layer height from lidar under different thermodynamic stability conditions. Remote Sensing of Environment, 237, 111519.