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Research article
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11 May 2015
Research article |
| 11 May 2015
Methodology for determining multilayered temperature inversions
G. J. Fochesatto
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Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Geophysical Institute and College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 903 Koyukuk Dr., Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA
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Short summary
Temperature inversion layers originate based on the combined forcing of local- and large-scale synoptic meteorology. A numerical procedure based on a linear interpolation function of variable length that minimizes an error function set a priori is proposed to extract thermodynamic information of the multilayered thermal structure. The method is demonstrated to detect surface-based inversion and multilayered elevated inversions present often in high-latitude atmospheres.
Temperature inversion layers originate based on the combined forcing of local- and large-scale...
