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Analysis of boundary layer sounding data from the FIRE Marine Stratocumulus Project

dc.contributor.authorSchubert, Wayne H., author
dc.contributor.authorCiesielski, Paul, E., author
dc.contributor.authorMcKee, Thomas B., author
dc.contributor.authorKleist, John D., author
dc.contributor.authorCox, Stephen K., author
dc.contributor.authorJohnson-Pasqua, Christopher, author
dc.contributor.authorSmith, William L., Jr., author
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-03T16:32:19Z
dc.date.available2022-05-03T16:32:19Z
dc.date.issued1987-10
dc.descriptionOctober 1987.
dc.descriptionFIRE volume 2 on cover.
dc.description.abstractWe present an analysis of the boundary layer thermodynamic data obtained by the CLASS radiosonde system during the marine boundary layer experiment on San Nicolas Island in the summer of 1987. The analysis procedure retains the highest possible vertical resolution in the data. Plots of temperature, dew point temperature, potential temperature, equivalent potential temperature and saturation equivalent potential temperature are presented for each of the sixty-nine soundings taken during FIRE. Conditions were mostly cloudy with fifty-five of the sixty-nine soundings being released with stratocumulus overhead. For the fifty-live cloudy soundings, cloud top Jumps of equivalent potential temperature i, and total water mixing ratio r were also determined. Each of these soundings is then represented by a point in the (~11., ~r) plane. Fifteen of these soundings are on the unstable aide of the evaporative instability line, and there appears to be some tendency for break-up under these conditions.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/234911
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relationCatalog record number (MMS ID): 991023639879703361
dc.relationQC852 .C6 no. 419
dc.relation.ispartofAtmospheric Science Papers (Blue Books)
dc.relation.ispartofAtmospheric science paper, no. 419
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dc.subjectAtmospheric thermodynamics -- California -- San Nicolas Island -- Charts, diagrams, etc
dc.subjectUpper atmosphere -- California -- San Nicolas Island -- Radiosonde observations
dc.subjectBoundary layer (Meteorology)
dc.titleAnalysis of boundary layer sounding data from the FIRE Marine Stratocumulus Project
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