Abstract
Dealing with diffusion and transport processes in atmospheric mesoscale flow fields one often comes across the situations when these processes take place within so-called atmospheric inversion layers, namely the layers characterized by the increase of the absolute temperature with height. In the course of the diurnal evolution of the atmospheric planetary boundary layer the two most typical examples of the sublayers with the inverse temperature gradient can be observed.
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Fedorovich, E. (1995). Inversion layers. In: Gyr, A., Rys, FS. (eds) Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8547-7_8
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