Diurnal variations of the planetary boundary layer height estimated from intensive radiosonde observations over Yichang, China

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2172-2176

  Zhang, YeHui ^a,b   Zhang, ShaoDong ^b   Huang, ChunMing ^b   Huang, KaiMing ^b   Gong, Yun ^b   Gan, Quan ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bulk Richardson (Ri) number method; diurnal variation; intensive radiosonde observations; planetary boundary layer height

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; RADIOSONDES;

BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHTS; DIURNAL VARIATION; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; RICHARDSON; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84919902936     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-014-5639-5     Document Type: Article

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