Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy

Figure 1

Operational ECMWF archive (forecast with a delayed cutoff) at 09H UTC, 21 March 2008. Wind barbs, pressure field with blue contours, BL height with black contours (from 1800 m to 2000 m height only), and SST as colored background. Triangles represent radiosounding releases.