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Daytime
convective boundary layer
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Neutral
lapse rate above surface
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Parcels
move freely vertically
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Strong
mixing
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Can
be several thousand meters deep over western U.S.
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Nocturnal
stable layer
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Temperature
usually increases with height away from
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the
surface – inversion
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Parcels
flow horizontally
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Little
mixing
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Usually
few hundred meters deep
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