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Title: A high-resolution planetary boundary layer height seasonal climatology from GNSS radio occultations

Abstract

We present a new seasonal planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) climatology product derived from 14 years of Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation (GNSS-RO) data from multiple missions including COSMIC, TerraSAR-X, KOMPSAT-5, and PAZ. PBLH estimates are derived from the minimum gradients of retrieved refractivity profiles, with a vertical resolution of ~200 m. The climatology is obtained from occultations observed between June 2006 and December 2019, and is divided into land and ocean regimes on a 2-degree grid. We provide seasonal climatologies at 2-degree resolution as well as climatologies of diurnal cycle amplitude and phase at 5-degree resolution. The new GNSS PBLH climatology is compared to radiosonde data from the ship-based Marine ARM GPCI Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC) campaign in the subtropical northeast Pacific ocean and to previous GNSS PBLH climatology estimates. The higher spatial resolution reveals new details such as seasonal PBLH modulation due to sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. The PBLH product is the first publicly available at 2-degree resolution.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  2. Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Capua (Italy)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Contributing Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
OSTI Identifier:
1866744
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019242; 80NM0018D0004
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 276; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; PBL; GPSRO; Cosmic

Citation Formats

Kalmus, Peter M., Ao, Chi O., Wang, Kuo-Nung, Manzi, Maria Paola, and Teixeira, João. A high-resolution planetary boundary layer height seasonal climatology from GNSS radio occultations. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2022.113037.
Kalmus, Peter M., Ao, Chi O., Wang, Kuo-Nung, Manzi, Maria Paola, & Teixeira, João. A high-resolution planetary boundary layer height seasonal climatology from GNSS radio occultations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113037
Kalmus, Peter M., Ao, Chi O., Wang, Kuo-Nung, Manzi, Maria Paola, and Teixeira, João. Sat . "A high-resolution planetary boundary layer height seasonal climatology from GNSS radio occultations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113037. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1866744.
@article{osti_1866744,
title = {A high-resolution planetary boundary layer height seasonal climatology from GNSS radio occultations},
author = {Kalmus, Peter M. and Ao, Chi O. and Wang, Kuo-Nung and Manzi, Maria Paola and Teixeira, João},
abstractNote = {We present a new seasonal planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) climatology product derived from 14 years of Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation (GNSS-RO) data from multiple missions including COSMIC, TerraSAR-X, KOMPSAT-5, and PAZ. PBLH estimates are derived from the minimum gradients of retrieved refractivity profiles, with a vertical resolution of ~200 m. The climatology is obtained from occultations observed between June 2006 and December 2019, and is divided into land and ocean regimes on a 2-degree grid. We provide seasonal climatologies at 2-degree resolution as well as climatologies of diurnal cycle amplitude and phase at 5-degree resolution. The new GNSS PBLH climatology is compared to radiosonde data from the ship-based Marine ARM GPCI Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC) campaign in the subtropical northeast Pacific ocean and to previous GNSS PBLH climatology estimates. The higher spatial resolution reveals new details such as seasonal PBLH modulation due to sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. The PBLH product is the first publicly available at 2-degree resolution.},
doi = {10.1016/j.rse.2022.113037},
journal = {Remote Sensing of Environment},
number = ,
volume = 276,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Sat Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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