Climatological characteristics of cloud distribution and planetary boundary layer structure in Jakarta, Indonesia revealed by lidar observation

Abstract

For two years we observed the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols in Jakarta, Indonesia, with ground-based Mie scattering lidars. A histogram of the cloud based height shows a notable maximum at an altitude of approximately 5 km, especially in the wet season. The planetary boundary layer height we inferred from the upper boundary of the aerosol layer was approximately 1.5-2 km in the wet season and 2-3 km in the dry season.