Abstract

Coherent Doppler lidar (CDL) has long been used to automatically identify gust front-induced wind shear signatures from the velocity data, but rare attention has been given to the fine structure of wind gust fronts. In this work, a compact and robust CDL with high efficiency and accuracy is equipped at Lanzhou Airport (103°49$^{\prime}$E, 36°03$^{\prime}$N) to conduct interpretation of wind gust front structures by using high-resolution CDL data. Outflows of gust fronts could be detected reliably from radial velocities, spectral widths, as well as radial shears. For the case study presented here, photographs of the velocity and spectrum width capacitates gust front characteristics such as height, advance speed, and radial shear, as well as vertical structure to be displayed in minute detail. Besides, the quasi-continuous vertical wind reveals the potential turbulent mixing and vertical transport process during the gust front event, which makes CDL a very attractive and essential technique for future development of gust front automatic detection systems.

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