LIDAR PROFILING IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE: EXPERIENCE FROM PECAN

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2018

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Lidar Profiling In the lower Troposphere: experience from PECAN Belay B. Demoz, Ruben Delgado, Brian Caroll, Kevin Vermeesch, David N. Whiteman, Ricardo Sakai, Sium Tesfay and Lorenza Cooper EPJ Web Conf., 176 (2018) 10004 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817610004

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PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night) campaign
backscatter lidars/ceilometers
bore wave dynamics
thunderstorms
thermodynamic profiling instruments
lower troposphere

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Results from the PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night) campaign are discussed. In particular, the utility of simple backscatter lidars/ceilometers in quantifying atmospheric dynamics parameters and variables as well as evolution of the lower tropospheric dynamics are made. Cases of bore wave dynamics and the potential of these events in lofting of low level, moist, airmass and its consequence in thunderstorm initiation are made. A suite of thermodynamic profiling instruments are combined and compared to describe and visualize lower tropospheric dynamic evolution.