Characteristics of the summer atmospheric boundary layer  height over the Tibetan Plateau and influential factors

Che, Junhui; Zhao, Ping

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5253-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5253-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5253-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

Research article

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06 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 06 Apr 2021

Characteristics of the summer atmospheric boundary layer height over the Tibetan Plateau and influential factors

Junhui Che and Ping Zhao

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Final revised paper (published on 06 Apr 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 24 Sep 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Junhui Che, 03 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Referee review for ACP-2020-787', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Junhui Che, 03 Jan 2021
RC3: 'Review Report on Characteristics of the summer atmospheric boundary layer height over the Tibetan Plateau and influential factors', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Nov 2020
- AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Junhui Che, 03 Jan 2021

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Junhui Che on behalf of the Authors (04 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Jan 2021) by Peter Haynes

RR by Gervásio Degrazia (09 Jan 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (24 Jan 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (06 Feb 2021) by Peter Haynes

AR by Junhui Che on behalf of the Authors (15 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Feb 2021) by Peter Haynes

AR by Junhui Che on behalf of the Authors (23 Feb 2021)

Short summary

The importance of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is recognized, but little is known about the Tibetan Plateau (TP) ABL due to the scarce data. Based on new observations from the Third Tibetan Plateau Atmospheric Scientific Experiment, we reveal a big drop in the ABL height from the west to the east of the TP for the first time, which is more remarkable than in the United States and all of China. This steep inhomogeneity in the TP is due to the difference in local climate and environment.