September 15, 2009
Hazy and Cloudy Skies Over Baltimore
Hazy and cloudy skies occurred throughout much of ELF's operation today. The planetary boundary layer (PBL) height as determined by UMBC's PBL Beta product is shown using the red line in the plot. UMBC's PBL Beta product uses the Covarience Wavelet Technique to determine the boundary layer height, for more information click here.
These measurments are in support of the joint NOAA/ARL and NOAA/NCEP ad hoc field study in the Baltimore-Washington metro area. This campaign, (Sept. 14-22, 2009), will develop an urban meteorological database to investigate the evolution and spatial variability of the the urban atmospheric boundary layer mixing height. At the same time it will allow comparison of mixed height detection from various instrumentation platforms and forecasting models.
