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Factors influencing the marine boundary layer during a cold-air outbreak

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The model for the cloud-topped marine boundary layer during a cold air outbreak developed by Stage and Businger (1981a) is used in conjunction with a test profile based on a fall outbreak episode over Lake Ontario to study factors influencing marine boundary-layer evolution.

Sensitivity tests are done which show changes in layer evolution resulting from variation of wind speed, radiative sky temperature, water surface temperature, humidity of the shoreline sounding and divergence. The behavior of the layer in the presence of a region of cold-water upwelling near the shore is also investigated. It is found that the main effect of the upwelling region is to delay modification of the boundary-layer air.

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  1. Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Steven A. Stage

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Stage, S.A. Factors influencing the marine boundary layer during a cold-air outbreak. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 26, 269–287 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121402

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