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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-73
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-73
15 May 2024
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Status: a revised version of this preprint is currently under review for the journal ESSD.

Water vapor Raman-lidar observations from multiple sites in the framework of WaLiNeAs

Frédéric Laly, Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, Jérémy Lagarrigue, Laurent Forges, and Cyrille Flamant

Abstract. During the Water Vapor Lidar Network Assimilation (WaLiNeAs) campaign, 8 lidars specifically designed to measure water vapor mixing ratio (WVMR) profiles were deployed on the western Mediterranean coast. The main objectives were to investigate the water vapor content during case studies of heavy precipitation events in the coastal Western Mediterranean and assess the impact of high spatio-temporal WVMR data on numerical weather prediction forecasts by means of state–of–the–art assimilation techniques. Given the increasing occurrence of extreme events due to climate change, WaLiNeAs is the first program in Europe to provide network–like, simultaneous and continuous water vapor profile measurements. This paper focuses on the WVMR profiling datasets obtained from three of the lidars managed by the French component of the WaLiNeAs team. These lidars were deployed in the towns of Coursan, Grau du Roi and Cannes. This measurement setup enabled monitoring of the water vapor content within the low troposphere along a period of three months over autumn – winter 2022 and four months in summer 2023. The lidars measured the WVMR profiles from the surface up to approximately 6–10 km at night, and 1–2 km during daytime; with a vertical resolution of 100 m and a time sampling between 15 – 30 min, selected to meet the needs of weather forecasting with an uncertainty lower than 0.4 g kg-1. The paper presents details about the instruments, the experimental strategy, as well as the datasets given in NETcdf format. The final dataset is divided in two datasets, the first with a time resolution of 15 min, which contains a total of 26 423 WVMR vertical profiles and the second with a time resolution of 30 min to improve the signal to noise ratio and signal altitude range.

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Frédéric Laly, Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, Jérémy Lagarrigue, Laurent Forges, and Cyrille Flamant

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  • RC1: 'Comment on essd-2024-73', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Jun 2024
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Frédéric Laly, 09 Oct 2024
  • RC2: 'Comment on essd-2024-73', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Sep 2024
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Frédéric Laly, 09 Oct 2024
Frédéric Laly, Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, Jérémy Lagarrigue, Laurent Forges, and Cyrille Flamant

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ESSD WaLiNeAs dataset Frédéric Laly, Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, Jérémy Lagarrigue, Laurent Forges, and Cyrille Flamant https://doi.org/10.25326/537

Frédéric Laly, Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, Jérémy Lagarrigue, Laurent Forges, and Cyrille Flamant

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We present a dataset of water vapor mixing ratio profiles acquired during the WaLiNeAs campaign in fall and winter 2022 and summer 2023, using 3 lidar systems deployed on the Western Mediterranean coastline. This innovative campaign gives access to low tropospheric water vapor variability to constrain meteorological forecasting models. The scientific objective is to improve forecasting of heavy precipation events that lead to severe flash floods.
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