Structure of meridional moisture transport over the US Southern Great Plains observed by co-deployed airborne wind and water vapor lidars

Structure and amount of moisture transport by the low level jet at small scales is not easily observed. Both radiosonde and profiler networks provide inadequate temporal and/or spatial resolution to describe wind or moisture gradients with sufficient precision. Aircraft deployment of dropsondes as part of focused field studies improves horizontal resolution, but the expense of deploying large numbers of dropsondes precludes detailed measurements at high spatial resolution.