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The contribution of radiative and turbulent processes to nocturnal atmospheric cooling has been studied using the experimental data of the ECLATS experiment which took place in the African Sahel; the radiative and turbulent fluxes were determined taking thermal advection into account. The turbulent cooling rate is predominant; it decreases strongly with altitude at the beginning of the night, which is the main cause of inversion formation.
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Estournel, C., Vehil, R. & Guedalia, D. An observational study of radiative and turbulent cooling in the nocturnal boundary layer (ECLATS experiment). Boundary-Layer Meteorol 34, 55–62 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120908
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