Diurnal variation of California coastal stratocumulus from two days of boundary layer soundings

Alan K. Betts

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v42i2.11879

Diurnal variation of California coastal stratocumulus from two days of boundary layer soundings

Tellus

Volume 42 (1990): Issue 2

By: Alan K. Betts

Open Access

|Jan 1990

Abstract

Boundary layer soundings show the diurnal variation of California coastal stratocumulus. During the period of solar heating, cloud base rises and the cloud layer thins, while the subcloud layer becomes more stable, suggesting some daytime uncoupling of the cloud layer from the surface.

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