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    Planetary Boundary layer (PBL) is the lowest layer of atmos--directly influenced (directly) by the surface. Air is heated / cooled from below--radiation Inversions (stable) at night--suppress mixing Big lapse rate during day--less stable-lots of mixing Mechanical Turbulence--roughness (day or night) Wind Speed goes to zero at surface (no slip) Speed increases with height according to Ekman Theory--dire

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    Planetary Boundary layer (PBL) is the lowest layer of atmos--directly influenced (directly) by the surface. Air is heated / cooled from below--radiation Inversions (stable) at night--suppress mixing Big lapse rate during day--less stable-lots of mixing Mechanical Turbulence--roughness (day or night) Wind Speed goes to zero at surface (no slip) Speed increases with height according to Ekman Theory--dire

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    Planetary Boundary layer (PBL) is the lowest layer of atmos--directly influenced (directly) by the surface. Air is heated / cooled from below--radiation Inversions (stable) at night--suppress mixing Big lapse rate during day--less stable-lots of mixing Mechanical Turbulence--roughness (day or night) Wind Speed goes to zero at surface (no slip) Speed increases with height according to Ekman Theory--dire

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    Planetary Boundary Layer


    • (PBL)
    Lowest layer of atmos—directly influenced
    by the surface
    • PBL vs. Free Atmosphere
    • What happens in PBL?
    • Air is heated/cooled from below—radiation
    • Inversions (stable) at night—suppress
    mixing
    • Big lapse rate during day—less stable-lots
    of mixing
    • Mechanical Turbulence—roughness (day or
    night)
    • Wind Speed goes to zero at surface (no
    slip)
    • Speed increases with height according
    to Ekman Theory—direction also
    changes
    • The more mixing
    • the more θ is constant with
    height
    • the more mixing ratio constant
    with height
    • Height of PBL deep during day, shallow
    at night
    • Depth determined by
    Transporting Air From
    Surface to Higher
    Levels

    Winds are stronger there


    Wind direction often changes
    with height
    Jet Streams
    Middle Latitude Wave
    Cyclones
    Major Airstreams in Midlat
    Cyclone
    Smaller Scale Circulations
    Also Provide Vertical
    Transport
    Sea/Land Breezes
    Mountain/Valley Breezes
    Santa Ana Winds & Fires
    Wires Fanned by Santa Ana
    Winds
    Thunderstorms-Major Vertical
    Transporters
    Lightning Creates NOx
    FOG
    Radiation Fog
    Advection Fog
    Yesterday’s Fog (4:46 PM)
    This morning
    Neat Picture
    Contrails Cover 0.1% of Earth’s

    Eastern
    France

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