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Planetary Boundary Layer Height Retrievals from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) around the US Southern Great Plains and the Eastern North Atlantic

<p>Planetary Boundary Layer Height (PBLH) retrievals in kilometers from the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) around the DOE ARM US Southern Great Plains (SGP) and the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA), using a modified version of the Different Thermo-Dynamics Stability (DTDS) &nbsp;algorithm. Quality control Flags are included as follows:</p> <ul> <li>0 = 'Good Quality'</li> <li>1 = 'Mediate Quality'</li> <li>2 = 'Bad Quality'</li> </ul> <p>In addition, -999 values in the dataset represent no data.&nbsp;<br>The PBLH for daytime denoised CATS photon counts at SGP is named: "daytime-denoised-dtds-pblh-sgp.csv"<br>The PBLH for the original daytime and nighttime data at SGP and ENA, without denoising the data, are named: "original-cats-dtds-pblh-daytime-nighttime-sgp.csv" and "original-cats-dtds-pblh-daytime-nighttime-ena.csv"</p> <p>References:&nbsp;</p> <p>Rold&aacute;n-Henao, N., Yorks, J., Su, T., Selmer, P., &amp; Li, Z. (2024). Statistically Resolved Planetary Boundary Layer Height Diurnal Variability Using Spaceborne Lidar Data. <em>Remote Sensing.&nbsp;</em></p> <p>Su, T., Li, Z., &amp; Kahn, R. (2020). A new method to retrieve the diurnal variability of planetary boundary layer height from lidar under different thermodynamic stability conditions.&nbsp;<em>Remote Sensing of Environment</em>,&nbsp;<em>237</em>, 111519.</p>

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