Tropospheric Water Vapor Transport as Determined from Airborne Lidar Measurements
Tropospheric Water Vapor Transport as Determined from Airborne Lidar Measurements
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DOI:
10.1175/2010jtecha1418.1
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发表时间:
2010-12
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2.2
通讯作者:
A. Schäfler;A. Dörnbrack;C. Kiemle;S. Rahm;M. Wirth
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作者:
A. Schäfler;A. Dörnbrack;C. Kiemle;S. Rahm;M. Wirth
AbstractThe first collocated measurements during THORPEX (The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment) regional campaign in Europe in 2007 were performed by a novel four-wavelength differential absorption lidar and a scanning 2-μm Doppler wind lidar on board the research aircraft Falcon of the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). One mission that was characterized by exceptionally high data coverage (47% for the specific humidity q and 63% for the horizontal wind speed υh) was selected to calculate the advective transport of atmospheric moisture qυh along a 1600-km section in the warm sector of an extratropical cyclone. The observations are compared with special 1-hourly model data calculated by the ECMWF integrated forecast system. Along the cross section, the model underestimates the wind speed on average by −2.8% (−0.6 m s−1) and overestimates the moisture at dry layers and in the boundary layer, which results in a wet bias of 17.1% (0.2 g kg−1). Nevertheless, the ECMWF mode...