From 21 August to 15 September 2022, a WindCube v2 infrared coherent Doppler lidar (DL) supplied by EKO Instruments Co. (Japan) was deployed at the Shigaraki MU Observatory (Japan) near the LQ7 UHF (1.357 GHz) wind profiler in routine operation. Horizontal and vertical velocity measurements from the DL were reliably obtained in the [40-300] m height range with vertical and temporal resolutions of 20 m and 4 s, respectively. The LQ7 wind measurements are collected with range and temporal resolutions of 100 m and 59 s, respectively, and 10 min average profiles are calculated after data quality control. Reliable LQ7 Doppler data are collected from a height of 400 m. Despite the lack of overlap in the height range, we compared the turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rate epsilon in the daytime planetary boundary layer estimated by the two instruments. A method based on the calculation of the one-dimensional transverse line spectrum of the vertical velocity W from mean W time series (TS method) was applied to DL (epsilon(DL)). The same method was also applied to 1 min LQ7 data (epsilon(TS)(LQ7)) to assess its performance with respect to DL despite the poorer time resolution. A more standard method based on the Doppler spectral width (DS) was also applied to LQ7 (epsilon(DS)(LQ7)) from the 10 min average profiles. We tested recently proposed models of the form epsilon=sigma(3)/L, where sigma is half the spectral width corrected for non-turbulent effects, and L is assumed to be a constant or a fraction of the depth D of the convective boundary layer (CBL). The main results are the following: (1) For the deepest CBLs (max (D)>similar to 1.0 km) that develop under high atmospheric pressure, the time-height cross-sections of epsilon(DS)(LQ7) and epsilon(DL) show very consistent patterns and do not show any substantial gaps in the transition region of 300-400 m when epsilon(DS)(LQ7) is evaluated with L similar to 70 m, which is found to be about one-tenth of the average of the CBL depth (L similar to 0.1D). (2) Hourly mean epsilon(DL) averaged over the [100-300] m height range is on average about twice the hourly mean epsilon(TS)(LQ7) averaged over the [400-500] m height range when D>similar to 1.0 km. (3) Hourly mean epsilon(DL) averaged over the [100-300] m height range and hourly mean epsilon(DS)(LQ7) averaged over the [400-500] m height range with L similar to 0.1D are identical on average. Consistent with the fact that epsilon is expected to decrease slightly with height in the mixed layer, results (2) and (3) imply an uncertainty as to the exact value of the L/D ratio: similar to 0.1D < L <similar to 0.2D. We have also studied in detail the case of a shallow (D <similar to 0.6 km) convective boundary layer that developed under low atmospheric pressure and cloudy conditions. Despite the fact that hourly mean sDL averaged over the [100-300] m height range and hourly mean epsilon(TS)(LQ7) averaged over the [400-500] m height range show more significant discrepancies, maybe due to the different properties of the shallow convection, the time-height cross- sections of epsilon(DL) and epsilon(DS) (LQ7) show more consistent patterns and levels.
