TY - JOUR
T1 - The Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT) Experiment
AU - Cohn, Stephen A.
AU - Mayor, Shane D.
AU - Grund, Christian J.
AU - Weckwerth, Tammy M.
AU - Senff, Christoph
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - The authors describe and present early results from the July-August 1996 Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT) experiment. LIFT was a boundary layer experiment that made use of recently developed Doppler, aerosol backscatter, and ozone lidars, along with radars and surface instrumentation, to study the structure and evolution of the convective boundary layer over the very flat terrain of central Illinois. Scientific goals include measurement of fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum; vertical velocity statistics; study of entrainment and boundary layer height; and observation of organized coherent structures. The data collected will also be used to evaluate the performance of these new lidars and compare measurements of velocity and boundary layer height to those obtained from nearby radar wind profilers. LIFT was a companion to the Flatland96 experiment, described by Angevine et al.
AB - The authors describe and present early results from the July-August 1996 Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT) experiment. LIFT was a boundary layer experiment that made use of recently developed Doppler, aerosol backscatter, and ozone lidars, along with radars and surface instrumentation, to study the structure and evolution of the convective boundary layer over the very flat terrain of central Illinois. Scientific goals include measurement of fluxes of heat, moisture, and momentum; vertical velocity statistics; study of entrainment and boundary layer height; and observation of organized coherent structures. The data collected will also be used to evaluate the performance of these new lidars and compare measurements of velocity and boundary layer height to those obtained from nearby radar wind profilers. LIFT was a companion to the Flatland96 experiment, described by Angevine et al.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0032450080
U2 - 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<1329:TLIFTL>2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<1329:TLIFTL>2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032450080
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 79
SP - 1329
EP - 1343
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 7
ER -