Atmospheric boundary layer height from ground-based remote sensing: a review of capabilities and limitations

S Kotthaus, JA Bravo-Aranda… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) defines the volume of air adjacent to the Earth's
surface for the dilution of heat, moisture, and trace substances. Quantitative knowledge on …

Diurnal mountain wind systems

D Zardi, CD Whiteman - … research and forecasting: Recent progress and …, 2012 - Springer
Diurnal mountain wind systems are local thermally driven wind systems that form over
mountainous terrain and are produced by the buoyancy effects associated with the diurnal …

Evidence for NOx Control over Nighttime SOA Formation

AW Rollins, EC Browne, KE Min, SE Pusede… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Laboratory studies have established a number of chemical pathways by which nitrogen
oxides (NO x) affect atmospheric organic aerosol (OA) production. However, these effects …

Convective boundary layer heights over mountainous terrain—a review of concepts

SFJ De Wekker, M Kossmann - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Mountainous terrain exerts an important influence on the Earth's atmosphere and affects
atmospheric transport and mixing at a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. The …

Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions

M Helbig, T Gerken, ER Beamesderfer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The atmospheric boundary layer mediates the exchange of energy, matter, and momentum
between the land surface and the free troposphere, integrating a range of physical …

A biogeochemical compromise: The high methane cost of sequestering carbon in restored wetlands

KS Hemes, SD Chamberlain… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Peatland drainage is an important driver of global soil carbon loss and carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions. Restoration of peatlands by reflooding reverses CO2 losses at the cost of …

How will land use affect air temperature in the surface boundary layer? Lessons learned from a comparative study on the energy balance of an oak savanna and …

D Baldocchi, S Ma - Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the effect of land use on differences in air temperature. We based our
analysis on a decade of weather and energy flux measurements, collected over two …

Estimation of atmospheric mixing layer height from radiosonde data

XY Wang, KC Wang - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2014 - amt.copernicus.org
Mixing layer height (h) is an important parameter for understanding the transport process in
the troposphere, air pollution, weather and climate change. Many methods have been …

Characterization of the atmospheric boundary layer in a narrow tropical valley using remote‐sensing and radiosonde observations and the WRF model: the Aburrá …

L Herrera‐Mejía, CD Hoyos - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The spatiotemporal evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), in a narrow, highly
complex terrain located in the Colombian Andes, is studied using radiosondes and remote …

Changes in ozone photochemical regime in Fresno, California from 1994 to 2018 deduced from changes in the weekend effect

B de Foy, WH Brune, JJ Schauer - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Significant progress has been made in reducing emissions of air pollutants in the San
Joaquin Valley in California. Nevertheless, from May to October, the valley still experiences …