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<p>The moisture advection term in the water–vapor budget equation is investigated with a combination of a vertically-staring water–vapor lidar and Doppler lidar systems. These instruments make it possible to get the mean profile of moisture tendency and the latent heat flux (LHF) divergence. We use data of the Land–Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) site, Oklahoma, USA, collected on 30 August 2017 between 15 and 24 UTC, which corresponds to 09 to 18 LT. The lidars provide turbulence resolving profiles of moisture and vertical wind fluctuations. The LHF profile is derived from the covariance of these moisture and vertical wind fluctuations. The mean boundary layer height <i>z</i><sub><i>i</i></sub> is determined from the peak of the moisture variance. The results demonstrate that the combination of two remote sensing instruments can be applied for determining the dominant water–vapor budget terms, namely moisture tendency, latent heat flux divergence and moisture advection.</p>

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Using ground-based lidar data to investigate the water–vapor budget in the daytime atmospheric boundary layer

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    2025年8月7日

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  • Diego Lange,
  • Andreas Behrendt,
  • Christoph Senff,
  • Timothy J. Wagner,
  • Florian Späth,
  • Volker Wulfmeyer

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The moisture advection term in the water–vapor budget equation is investigated with a combination of a vertically-staring water–vapor lidar and Doppler lidar systems. These instruments make it possible to get the mean profile of moisture tendency and the latent heat flux (LHF) divergence. We use data of the Land–Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) site, Oklahoma, USA, collected on 30 August 2017 between 15 and 24 UTC, which corresponds to 09 to 18 LT. The lidars provide turbulence resolving profiles of moisture and vertical wind fluctuations. The LHF profile is derived from the covariance of these moisture and vertical wind fluctuations. The mean boundary layer height zi is determined from the peak of the moisture variance. The results demonstrate that the combination of two remote sensing instruments can be applied for determining the dominant water–vapor budget terms, namely moisture tendency, latent heat flux divergence and moisture advection.