Abstract:
A Doppler lidar was installed at Manora Peak, Nainital (29.4 °N; 79.2°E; 1958 amsl) to estimate mixing
layer height for the first time by using vertical velocity variance as basic measurement parameter for
the period September–November 2011. Mixing layer height is found to be located ~0.57 ± 0.1 and
0.45± 0.05 km AGL during day and nighttime, respectively. The estimation of mixing layer height shows
good correlation (R² >0.8) between different instruments and with different methods. Our results show
that wavelet co-variance transform is a robust method for mixing layer height estimation.
