Research Article

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 8

Seasonal contrasts in PBL depths (in m) obtained by subtracting median winter PBL depths from summer median PBL depths () elucidate a diverse nature of PBL depth seasonal cycles among seven sectors of the study region. Black boxes mark the seven different US sectors shown in Table 2. Sites located in close proximity to coastlines and lakes are marked with black circles around the colored symbols. These sites showed very small (~100 m or less) seasonal contrasts (see Section 3.4 for further details).