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Title: A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles

Abstract

A review of remote sensing technology for lower-tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal-vertical resolution. The contributions of these instruments to the understanding of the Earth system are assessed with respect to radiative transfer, land-surface-atmosphere feedback, convection initiation, and data assimilation. We demonstrate that for progress in weather and climate research, TD profilers are essential. These observational systems must resolve gradients of humidity and temperature in the stable or unstable atmospheric surface layer close to the ground, in the mixed layer, in the interfacial layer – usually characterized by an inversion – and the lower troposphere. A thorough analysis of the current observing systems is performed revealing significant gaps that must be addressed to fulfill existing needs. We analyze whether current and future passive and active remote sensing systems can close these gaps. A methodological analysis and demonstration of measurement capabilities with respect to bias and precision is executed both for passive and active remote sensing including passive infrared and microwave spectroscopy, the global positioning system as well as water-vapor and temperature Raman lidar and water-vapor differential absorption lidar. Whereas passive remote sensing systems are already mature with respect to operational applications, activemore » remote sensing systems require further engineering to become operational in networks. However, active remote sensing systems provide a smaller bias as well as higher temporal and vertical resolutions. For a suitable mesoscale network design, TD profiler system developments should be intensified and dedicated observing system simulation experiments should be performed.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8]
  1. Univ. of Hohenheim, Stuttgart (Germany). Institute of Physics and Meteorology.
  2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
  3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Norman, OK (United States). National Severe Storms Lab.
  4. Argonne National Lab., Argonne, IL (United States). Environmental Science Div.
  5. Univ. degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza (Italy). Scuola di Ingegneria.
  6. European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt (Germany)
  7. Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand (France). Lab. de Météorologie Physique.
  8. German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam (Germany)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1212887
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
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Journal Name:
Reviews of Geophysics (1985)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Reviews of Geophysics (1985); Journal ID: ISSN 8755-1209
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; remote sensing; lidar; IR and MW remote sensing; energy and water cycle; data assimilation; atmospheric boundary layer

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Wulfmeyer, Volker, Hardesty, Mike, Turner, David D., Behrendt, Andreas, Cadeddu, Maria, Di Girolamo, Paolo, Schlüssel, Peter, van Baelen, Joël, and Zus, Florian. A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1002/2014RG000476.
Wulfmeyer, Volker, Hardesty, Mike, Turner, David D., Behrendt, Andreas, Cadeddu, Maria, Di Girolamo, Paolo, Schlüssel, Peter, van Baelen, Joël, & Zus, Florian. A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014RG000476
Wulfmeyer, Volker, Hardesty, Mike, Turner, David D., Behrendt, Andreas, Cadeddu, Maria, Di Girolamo, Paolo, Schlüssel, Peter, van Baelen, Joël, and Zus, Florian. Wed . "A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014RG000476. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1212887.
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title = {A review of the remote sensing of lower-tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles},
author = {Wulfmeyer, Volker and Hardesty, Mike and Turner, David D. and Behrendt, Andreas and Cadeddu, Maria and Di Girolamo, Paolo and Schlüssel, Peter and van Baelen, Joël and Zus, Florian},
abstractNote = {A review of remote sensing technology for lower-tropospheric thermodynamic (TD) profiling is presented with focus on high accuracy and high temporal-vertical resolution. The contributions of these instruments to the understanding of the Earth system are assessed with respect to radiative transfer, land-surface-atmosphere feedback, convection initiation, and data assimilation. We demonstrate that for progress in weather and climate research, TD profilers are essential. These observational systems must resolve gradients of humidity and temperature in the stable or unstable atmospheric surface layer close to the ground, in the mixed layer, in the interfacial layer – usually characterized by an inversion – and the lower troposphere. A thorough analysis of the current observing systems is performed revealing significant gaps that must be addressed to fulfill existing needs. We analyze whether current and future passive and active remote sensing systems can close these gaps. A methodological analysis and demonstration of measurement capabilities with respect to bias and precision is executed both for passive and active remote sensing including passive infrared and microwave spectroscopy, the global positioning system as well as water-vapor and temperature Raman lidar and water-vapor differential absorption lidar. Whereas passive remote sensing systems are already mature with respect to operational applications, active remote sensing systems require further engineering to become operational in networks. However, active remote sensing systems provide a smaller bias as well as higher temporal and vertical resolutions. For a suitable mesoscale network design, TD profiler system developments should be intensified and dedicated observing system simulation experiments should be performed.},
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journal = {Reviews of Geophysics (1985)},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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Airborne Lidar Observations of Water Vapor Variability in Tropical Shallow Convective Environment
book, January 2017


Observing Convective Aggregation
journal, June 2017

  • Holloway, Christopher E.; Wing, Allison A.; Bony, Sandrine
  • Surveys in Geophysics, Vol. 38, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10712-017-9419-1

Development and Evaluation of a Long‐Term Data Record of Planetary Boundary Layer Profiles From Aircraft Meteorological Reports
journal, February 2019

  • Zhang, Yuanjie; Li, Dan; Lin, Zekun
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 124, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1029/2018jd029529

Compact Operational Tropospheric Water Vapor and Temperature Raman Lidar with Turbulence Resolution
journal, December 2019

  • Lange, D.; Behrendt, A.; Wulfmeyer, V.
  • Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 46, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1029/2019gl085774

Simultaneous wind and rainfall detection by power spectrum analysis using a VAD scanning coherent Doppler lidar
journal, January 2019

  • Wei, Tianwen; Xia, Haiyun; Hu, Jianjun
  • Optics Express, Vol. 27, Issue 22
  • DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.031235

Demonstration of a combined differential absorption and high spectral resolution lidar for profiling atmospheric temperature
journal, December 2019

  • Stillwell, Robert A.; Spuler, Scott M.; Hayman, Matthew
  • Optics Express, Vol. 28, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1364/oe.379804

High-Resolution Observations of Transport and Exchange Processes in Mountainous Terrain
journal, November 2018

  • Emeis, Stefan; Kalthoff, Norbert; Adler, Bianca
  • Atmosphere, Vol. 9, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.3390/atmos9120457

The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment: Overview and Introduction to Results and Recommendations
journal, January 2019

  • Schröder, Marc; Lockhoff, Maarit; Shi, Lei
  • Remote Sensing, Vol. 11, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.3390/rs11030251

The HD(CP) 2 Observational Prototype Experiment (HOPE) – an overview
journal, January 2017

  • Macke, Andreas; Seifert, Patric; Baars, Holger
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-4887-2017

Evaluation of large-eddy simulations forced with mesoscale model output for a multi-week period during a measurement campaign
journal, January 2017

  • Heinze, Rieke; Moseley, Christopher; Böske, Lennart Nils
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-7083-2017

Characterisation of boundary layer turbulent processes by the Raman lidar BASIL in the frame of HD(CP) 2 Observational Prototype Experiment
journal, January 2017

  • Di Girolamo, Paolo; Cacciani, Marco; Summa, Donato
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-745-2017

Application of parametric speakers to radio acoustic sounding system
journal, January 2019

  • Adachi, Ahoro; Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol. 12, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.5194/amt-12-5699-2019

3-D water vapor field in the atmospheric boundary layer observed with scanning differential absorption lidar
journal, January 2016

  • Späth, Florian; Behrendt, Andreas; Muppa, Shravan Kumar
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol. 9, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-1701-2016

Relative humidity vertical profiling using lidar-based synergistic methods in the framework of the Hygra-CD campaign
journal, January 2018

  • Labzovskii, Lev D.; Papayannis, Alexandros; Binietoglou, Ioannis
  • Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 36, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.5194/angeo-36-213-2018

The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment archive of water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses
journal, January 2018


Airborne Lidar Observations of Water Vapor Variability in Tropical Shallow Convective Environment
journal, October 2017


Application of Parametric Speakers to Radio Acoustic Sounding System
journal, May 2019

  • Adachi, Ahoro; Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/amt-2019-92

3D Water Vapor Field in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observed with Scanning Differential Absorption Lidar
journal, January 2016

  • Spath, F.; Behrendt, A.; Muppa, S. K.
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/amt-2015-393

High-Resolution Observations of Transport and Exchange Processes in Mountainous Terrain
text, January 2018


Evaluation of large-eddy simulations forced with mesoscale model output for a multi-week period during a measurement campaign
journal, June 2016

  • Heinze, Rieke; Moseley, Christopher; Boske, Lennart Nils
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-2016-498

Large-eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: a comprehensive evaluation
other, January 2017

  • Heinze, Rieke; Dipankar, Anurag; Henken, Cintia Carbajal
  • Chichester : John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • DOI: 10.15488/1272

The HD(CP)2 Observational Prototype Experiment (HOPE) - An overview
other, January 2017

  • Macke, Andreas; Seifert, Patric; Baars, Holger
  • Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH
  • DOI: 10.15488/1664

Large-eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: a comprehensive evaluation
text, January 2017