Welcome to REAL Observations of Convective Boundary Layers

The following animation shows the growth and decay of an atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) over a span of 9 hours. It consists of 3717 frames collected between 9:30 AM and 7:30 PM on 10 September, 2009, in Chico, California. The lidar collected frames once every 9 seconds. The animation frame rate is 30 frames per second. Sunset occurred at around 7:25 PM. Note: the vertical scale is stretched twice the distance of the horizontal.

The following animation shows the development of an atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) over a span of about 8 hours. It consists of 975 frames collected between 16 UTC on March 16 and 00 UTC on March 17, 2007, in Dixon, California. (The times correspond from 8 AM Pacific Standard to 4 PM Pacific Standard.) The animation frame rate is 15 frames per second.

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