Abstract: Data from surface stations, profilers, long-range aircraft surveys, and satellites were used to characterize the large-scale structure of the marine boundary layer off of California and Oregon during June and July 1996. ...

Abstract: A midlevel, coastally trapped atmospheric event occurred along the California coast 10?11 June 1994. This feature reversed the surface wind field along the coast in a northerly phase progression. Along the central California ...

Abstract: An instrumented C-130 aircraft flew over water around Point Sur, California, on 17 June 1996 under strong northwest wind conditions and a strong marine inversion. Patterns were flown from 30- to 1200-m elevation and up to ...

Abstract: Decoupling of the marine boundary layer beneath stratocumulus clouds and the formation of cumulus clouds at the top of a surface-based mixed layer (SML) have frequently been observed and modeled. When such cumulus clouds ...