Measurements and model improvement: Insight into NWP model error using Doppler lidar and other WFIP2 measurement systems

RM Banta, YL Pichugina, WA Brewer… - Monthly Weather …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Doppler-lidar wind-profile measurements at three sites were used to evaluate NWP model
errors from two versions of NOAA's 3-km-grid HRRR model, to see whether updates in the …

Model evaluation by measurements from collocated remote sensors in complex terrain

YL Pichugina, RM Banta, WA Brewer… - Weather and …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Model improvement efforts involve an evaluation of changes in model skill in
response to changes in model physics and parameterization. When using wind …

Case study of a bore wind-ramp event from lidar measurements and HRRR simulations over ARM Southern Great Plains

YL Pichugina, RM Banta, EJ Strobach… - Journal of Renewable …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The rapid change of wind speed and direction on 21 August 2017 is studied using Doppler
lidar measurements at five sites of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern …