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Evaluation of the Applicability of the ERA5 Reanalysis for Interpretation of the Polarization Laser Sensing Data of the High-Level Clouds in Western Siberia

Ilya Bryukhanov
,
Maxim Penzin
,
Olesia Kuchinskaia
* ,
Evgeny Ni
,
Konstantin Pustovalov
,
Valentina Bryukhanova
,
Nikolay Kirillov
,
Ivan Zhivotenyuk
,
Anton Doroshkevich
,
Alexander Stykon
,
Iurii Bordulev
,
Vadim Kostyukhin
,
Ignatiy Samokhvalov
Version 1 : Received: 4 May 2022 / Approved: 7 May 2022 / Online: 7 May 2022 (03:12:44 CEST)

How to cite: Bryukhanov, I.; Penzin, M.; Kuchinskaia, O.; Ni, E.; Pustovalov, K.; Bryukhanova, V.; Kirillov, N.; Zhivotenyuk, I.; Doroshkevich, A.; Stykon, A.; Bordulev, I.; Kostyukhin, V.; Samokhvalov, I. Evaluation of the Applicability of the ERA5 Reanalysis for Interpretation of the Polarization Laser Sensing Data of the High-Level Clouds in Western Siberia. Preprints 2022, 2022050086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0086.v1 Bryukhanov, I.; Penzin, M.; Kuchinskaia, O.; Ni, E.; Pustovalov, K.; Bryukhanova, V.; Kirillov, N.; Zhivotenyuk, I.; Doroshkevich, A.; Stykon, A.; Bordulev, I.; Kostyukhin, V.; Samokhvalov, I. Evaluation of the Applicability of the ERA5 Reanalysis for Interpretation of the Polarization Laser Sensing Data of the High-Level Clouds in Western Siberia. Preprints 2022, 2022050086. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0086.v1

Abstract

This article presents results of the polarization laser studies of the optical and microphysical characteristics of the high-level clouds (HLC). The high-altitude matrix polarization lidar (HAMPL; Tomsk, Russia) is described. HAMPL measures vertical profiles of all elements of the backscattering phase matrix (BSPM) of the HLC. Based on the joint analysis of lidar and radiosonde observations it is shown that the spatial structure of the HLC containing oriented ice crystals is inhomogeneous in the horizontal wind direction. It includes local areas with oriented particles; the sizes of such areas are estimated together with the most probable meteorological conditions of their formation. The shortcomings of the radiosonde observations performed closest to the location of the HAMPL are described. The applicability of the ERA5 reanalysis data of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts for use as an alternative source of information on the vertical profiles of meteorological quantities for the interpretation of HLC lidar sensing data in Western Siberia was checked.

Keywords

atmosphere; high-level clouds; ice particles; polarization lidar; interpretation of lidar data; radiosonde observations; ERA5 reanalysis.

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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