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Abstract
During the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) a large suite of remote sensing instruments was deployed in a low-mountain area in central Europe in summer 2007. The ground-based instruments were collocated at five so-called supersites. Here, we report of synergetic measurements made by three lidar instruments at COPS Supersite H at the top of Hornisgrinde, the highest peak in the northern Black Forest in south-western Germany, at a height of 1161 m above sea level. The three instruments are the water vapor differential absorption lidar (DIAL) and the rotational Raman temperature lidar of University of Hohenheim, and the Doppler lidar of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. By combining high-resolution data (1 to 10 s) of these instruments, profiles of sensible heat flux and latent heat flux can be derived. Within this presentation, exaples of these data products will be presented and discussed.