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Probability density distributions of vertical velocity fluctuations from the daytime convective boundary layer and from convection within a nighttime stratocumulus-capped boundary layer are described and contrasted. Some implications for the diffusion of released, neutrally buoyant, material are identified and discussed.
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Caughey, S.J., Kitchen, M. & Leighton, J.R. Turbulence structure in convective boundary layers and implications for diffusion. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 25, 345–352 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02041153
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