On the Potential of 25 Years (1991–2015) of Rawinsonde Measurements for Elucidating Climatological and Spatiotemporal Patterns of Afternoon Boundary Layer Depths over the Contiguous US

Figure 9

Seasonal cycles of median PBL depths at 20 IGRA sites which are located along or near the coastline. Both the IGRA station identifications and the locations of the 20 IGRA sites are indicated on the -axis and are organized according to their distances from the nearest coastline. For the PBL depth contour, a color bar scale limit (between 300 and 1200 m) was chosen to represent all the available climatological monthly median values of PBL depths at those 20 sites. Stations are sorted by distance from the coast; thus, Grey is nearest the coast, whereas Gaylord is furthest from the coast.