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Events in the stably stratified lower atmospheric boundary layer within the first several hundreds of meters at Barrow, Alaska were recorded from 27 March to 5 April 1990 using an acoustic sounder (sodar), a tethered balloon, radiosondes, and an instrumented meteorological tower. These events include ground-based and low-level inversion layers, gravity waves, breaking waves, and multiple-layer structures. Even though these events are commonly found in a stable boundary layer, it is perhaps surprising to find them in such a slowly changing environment and over a terrain that is essentially devoid of immediate orographic influence.
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Cheung, T.K. Sodar observations of the stable lower atmospheric boundary layer at Barrow, Alaska. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 57, 251–274 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120887
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