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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-257
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-257
10 May 2022
 | 10 May 2022
Status: this preprint was under review for the journal ACP but the revision was not accepted.

Measurement report: Structure of the atmospheric boundary layer and its relationship with the land-atmosphere interaction on the Tibetan Plateau

Maoshan Li, Wei Fu, Na Chang, Ming Gong, Pei Xu, Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Yaoxian Yang, and Fanglin Sun

Abstract. There is a deep atmospheric boundary layer on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) that has always been of interest to researchers. The variation in the atmospheric boundary layer under the influence of the southern branch of the westerly wind and that of the Asian monsoon was analyzed using sounding data collected in 2014 and 2019. Then, the hourly high-resolution comprehensive observation data for the land-atmosphere interaction on the TP and the ERA5 reanalysis data were used to study the influence of the atmospheric boundary layer’s structure in Mount Everest, Nyingchi, Nam Co, Nagqu, and Shiquan River regions. The results show that the height of the convective boundary layer observed at the Mount Everest, Nyingchi, Nam Co, Nagqu, and Shiquan River stations on the TP under the influence of the southern branch of the westerly wind was higher than that during the Asian monsoon season. The height of the convective boundary layer in the Shiquan River area was often highest at 20:00. The structure of the boundary layer in the Mount Everest area was often affected by the westerly jets and glacial winds. The inversion layer developed earlier in the Nyingchi area than at the other stations. The height of the boundary layer was positively correlated with the sensible heat flux and negatively correlated with the latent heat flux. The vertical velocity in the atmospheric boundary layer in the Nyingchi area decreased, which may be one of the reasons why the height of the convective boundary layer was lower in this area than at the other stations and humidity inversion often occurred in this area.

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Maoshan Li, Wei Fu, Na Chang, Ming Gong, Pei Xu, Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Yaoxian Yang, and Fanglin Sun

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Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on acp-2022-257', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Jun 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on acp-2022-257', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2022
Maoshan Li, Wei Fu, Na Chang, Ming Gong, Pei Xu, Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Yaoxian Yang, and Fanglin Sun

Data sets

Radiosonde observation data of stations on the Tibetan Plateau in 2014 Li, M. https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/zh-hans/data/70edaec5-8418-44cd-afc4-fb089f7bf413/

A long-term dataset of integrated land-atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau (2005-2016) Ma, Y. https://doi.org/10.11888/Meteoro.tpdc.270910

Maoshan Li, Wei Fu, Na Chang, Ming Gong, Pei Xu, Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Yaoxian Yang, and Fanglin Sun

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Compared with the plain area, the land-atmosphere interaction on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is intense and complex, which affects the structure of the boundary layer. The observed height of the convective boundary layer on the TP under the influence of the southern branch of the westerly wind was higher than that during the Asian monsoon season. The height of the boundary layer was positively correlated with the sensible heat flux and negatively correlated with latent heat flux.
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