Determining mixing depths in complex terrain near a power plant with radar profiler reflectivities

Numerous analyses of 915-MHz wind profiler data are now appearing in the literature in such applications as air quality. Another set of data from these radars is just beginning to be exploited. Pioneering work used radar reflectivity to estimate daytime mixing depths by relating this reflectivity in the form of signal-to-noise ratios to radar C{sub n}{sup 2}. This, in turn, can be related to mixed layer turbulence. These results add a new dimension to the 915-MHz wind profiler products. We used these estimated mixing depths to determine the extent of mixing at several distributed wind profiler sites in the very complex terrain of the Project MOHAVE which occurred during 1992.