Water vapor measurements by mobile Raman lidar over the Mediterranean Sea in the framework of HyMeX: application to multi-platform validation of moisture profiles

Julien Totems 1 Patrick Chazette 1 Xiaoxia Shangt 1 Cyrille Flamant 2 Jean-Christophe Raut 2 Alexis Doerenbecher 3 Véronique Ducrocq 3 Olivier Bock 4 Fabien Marnas 1
1 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
2 TROPO - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
3 CNRM-GAME - Groupe d'étude de l'atmosphère météorologique
4 GEOATM
LAREG/IGN - LAboratoire de REcherche en Géodésie [Paris]
Abstract : The Water Aerosol Lidar (WALI) system, deployed for 14 weeks during 2012 & 2013 on the island of Menorca, provided the Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment (HyMeX) with an opportunity to perform a multi-platform comparison on moisture retrievals at the timescales relevant for extreme precipitation events in the West Mediterranean basin. After calibration, the WALI lidar yields nighttime profiles of water vapor with ~7% accuracy from the ground up to 7 km, and daytime coverage of the lower layers, alongside common aerosol retrievals. It is used to characterize the water vapor profile product given by the IASI instrument on-board MetOp-B, and the fields simulated by the Météo-France AROME-WMED model and the open-source WRF model. IASI is found to be reliable above 1 km altitude, and the two models obtain similar high scores in the middle troposphere; WRF beneficiates from a more accurate modelling of the planetary boundary layer.
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Julien Totems, Patrick Chazette, Xiaoxia Shangt, Cyrille Flamant, Jean-Christophe Raut, et al.. Water vapor measurements by mobile Raman lidar over the Mediterranean Sea in the framework of HyMeX: application to multi-platform validation of moisture profiles . EPJ Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, 2016, The 27th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 27), 119, pp.26006. ⟨10.1051/epjconf/201611926006⟩. ⟨insu-01176029⟩

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