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The study of small-scale meteorological processes associated with the interaction of the atmosphere and the Earth's surface. The lower boundary...



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Figure 1.Soundings of temperature versus height for (a) day time and (b) nighttime obtained by radiosonde measurements during the Wangara experiment near Hay, New South Wales, Australia, in 1967. Soundings are shown for 9 A.M. through 9 P.M. on day 33 of the experiment and 12 midnight through 6 A.M. on day 34. (After R. B. Stull, An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology, Kluwer Academic, 1988)
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Figure 2.The 3 P.M. sounding from Fig. 1a showing the layers of the daytime convective boundary layer.
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