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	Temperature inversion - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A temperature inversion is a meteorological phenomenon where air temperature increases with height.
		Usually, within the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) the air near the surface of the Earth is warmer than the air above it, largely because the atmosphere is heated from below by solar radiation absorbed at the surface.
		With the disruption of normal convection, a number of phenomena are associated with a temperature inversion.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Temperature_inversion (390 words)

	Temperature inversion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because the higher air is warmer, air that is rising in thermals is prevented by the inversion layer from rising any higher.
		In this case the moisture in the thermals often cannot reach the height at which it would condense to form cumulus clouds and so the sky is cloudless.
		Sometimes the inversion layer is higher so that the cumulus clouds can condense but then they spread out under the inversion layer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thermal_inversion (531 words)

	AMS Glossary
		The caps are perpendicular to the column and form as the crystal enters regions where change of air temperature leads to change in crystal structure from column to plate.
		Although the word “inversion” implies that temperature increases with height, the word “capping inversion” is used more loosely for any stable layer (potential temperature increasing with height) at the top of the boundary layer.
		This inversion is a ubiquitous feature of the atmospheric boundary layer, formed because the troposphere is statically stable on the average, and because turbulence homogenizes air within the boundary layer, which by conservation of heat requires that a stable layer form at the top of the boundary layer.
	amsglossary.allenpress.com /glossary/browse?s=c&p=8 (329 words)

	Cap - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Alternate meaning: in meteorology, a cap is a capping inversion.
		Caps are generally soft, and often have no brim, or just a peak (like on a baseball cap).
		In the 18th and 19th centuries for example a cap was a kind of head covering made of a flimsy fabric such as muslin; they were worn indoors by married women, or older unmarried women who were "on the shelf" (e.g.
	www.indopedia.org /Cap.html (266 words)

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		The capping inversion is a frequent stable thermodynamic layer which is usually topped at 1-2 km (or 100-200 mb) above ground.
		It is hypothesized that the sequence of events leading to the capping inversion, and subsequently a severe convective storm, are as follows.
		The inversion removal is thought to be well underway by the time the first radar echoes are detected.
	datalib.library.ualberta.ca /AHParchive/LIMEX-desc.html (961 words)

	Otto Cap
		1) " Otto" -- As to Otto Cap
		2) " Cap" -- As to Otto Cap
		In the 18th and 19th centuries forexample a cap was a kind of head covering made of a flimsy fabric such as muslin ; theywere worn indoors by married women, or older unmarried women who were "on the shelf" (e.g.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/9948-otto-cap.html (460 words)

	November 11, 1996, 12Z: soundings discussion - grb, dtx, grb
		There is another inversion right at the surface, but this is more a result of time of day than any dynamic influence - radiative cooling of the surface at night will form this inversion and daytime heating and mixing of the lower layers will eliminate it quickly in the morning hours.
		Above the capping inversion at 800 mb the column cools slightly up to 400 mb where we have noted the top of the troposphere.
		The capping inversion is now found at about 700 mb which is a significant change from the Green Bay sounding.
	ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/arch/cases/961109/data/upa/sndg/1111.rxml (749 words)

	May 5, 2002 - Happy, Texas Tornado
		A capping inversion was also present over the area, which would serve to prevent surface based convection, another ingredient usually required for supercell thunderstorms to produce tornadoes.
		With their updrafts above the capping inversion, these storms were not able to draw on the moisture rich air near the surface, nor were they able to draw upon the favorable wind shear that existed in the lower few thousand feet of the atmosphere.
		The capping inversion was not as strong over the Panhandle and upslope flow of moist air at the surface across the 3,000+ ft above sea level elevation of the region was expected provide, as usual, added lift to support the formation and intensity of storms.
	www.k5kj.net /020505.htm (1547 words)

	"The Cap" Friend of Foe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If the cap is too weak, the atmosphere can overturn early in the day and you are left with a squall line at 11 am.
		But if the cap burns off at just the right time of day (say 2 to 4 pm, the time of maximum heating) you may be left with isolated severe storms that can be possibly tornadic.
		LITTLE/NO CAP - EARLY BOOM: On March 24, 1988, a squall line developed through the center of the U.S. The morning sounding (solid lines) at Monett, MO indicates a weak capping inversion of 3 degrees C at 770 mb.
	nislwx.com /cap.html (1209 words)

	Temperature inversion Article, Temperatureinversion Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A temperature inversion is a meteorological phenomenon where air temperature increaseswith height.
		Usually, within the lower atmosphere (the troposphere) the air near thesurface of the Earth is warmer than the air above it, largely because the atmosphere isheated from below by solar radiation absorbed at the surface.
		In an inversion the normal pattern is reversed,and distant objects are instead streched out or appear to be above the horizon.
	www.anoca.org /air/convection/temperature_inversion.html (409 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Across the capping inversion, the lidar reflectivity contours approximate isentropes and streamlines thereby defining the inversion.
		Entrainment across the inversion is manifested by small scale perturbations (200-500 m) superimposed upon the large scale (1-2 km) undulations of the inversion.
		The fluxes measured by the covariance method in the undulating inversion are unreliable because of the sensitivity to detrending and inadequate sampling of the exchanges across the interfaces of the domes and troughs.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /pubs/1986abs/0803.html (437 words)

	List of events on MINI sodar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		inversion; thin (~20 m) sfc layer ascends from the ground
		capping inversion (lower boundary) raises beyond sodar range (200 m)
		inversion break up; sfc layer lifts off; no distinct lower boundary of elev.
	www.atmos.anl.gov /ABLE/minievents.html (1380 words)

	Example: Measurements of Wintertime Haze (McGill U.)
		Typically haze is observed when there is a shallow mixed layer with a capping temperature inversion associated with a surface high pressure system.
		The capping inversion is well defined and below the base of the inversion (700 m) there is a unstable region down to 470 m.
		Figure 2a is a time-height plot of the virtual potential temperature obtained from a running hourly average of the RASS data, indicating the structure of the boundary layer.
	www.radar.mcgill.ca /wintertime_haze.html (500 words)

	Wet Bulb Potential Temperature Profiles: Significance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Numerous studies have examined the characteristics of the capping inversion that exists at the top of a coastal fog layer.
		When this inversion is strong and sharp, the wet bulb potential temperature
		Conversely, when the wet bulb potential temperature decreases with height across the inversion, it is an indication that the inversion is not as strongly capped and is more susceptible to dissipation via entrainment
	meted.ucar.edu /fogstrat/ic31/ic313/wetbulb_1.htm (190 words)

	NOAA's National Weather Service - Glossary
		The cap is an important ingredient in most severe thunderstorm episodes, as it serves to separate warm, moist air below and cooler, drier air above.
		The term capping inversion is sometimes used, but an inversion is not necessary for the conditions producing convective inhibition to exist.
		They are obtained on a sounding by computing the area enclosed between the environmental temperature profile and the path of a rising air parcel, over the layer within which the latter is cooler than the former.
	www.nws.noaa.gov /glossary/glossary.php?letter=c (6268 words)

	NWS Jackson, MS - April 6-7, 2003 Severe Weather and Flood Event
		In contrast, the area south of the boundary was still under the influence of a strong capping inversion, and the airmass there could be best described as a "loaded gun." A discrete cell developed in this airmass over southeast Louisiana, and moved into southwest Mississippi during the early evening hours of 6 April 2003.
		A strong mid level capping inversion associated with this subsidence resulted in a sharp cut-off in precipitation to the south, indicated by visible satellite imagery (Fig.
		While a strong mid level capping inversion under the ULJ shaped the convective pattern, the sharp edge of the anvil from the first MCS was determined to be a source of significant differential heating.
	www.nwas.org /ej/carpenter/April6-7-2003.html (2158 words)

	Aspects of the convective boundary layer structure over complex terrain. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So, the large-scale air flow caused suppression of the convective boundary layer growth at the mountain ridge by forcing the capping inversion towards the elevation of the terrain.
		The advection of cold air by up-slope winds lowered the heating rate near the ground and was able to generate an inversion above the up-slope wind layer.
		In the late afternoon, the terrain following structure of the capping inversion diminished and the capping inversion tended to form a horizontal plane.
	www-fzk.imk.uni-karlsruhe.de /seite_484.php (344 words)

	National Severe Storms Laboratory Seminar Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The key variables that influence the ducting effects are the height, depth and intensity of the inversion.
		The latter, however, requires the two-dimensional field of the inversion base height be correctly estimated.
		To this end, an automated algorithm is developed to detect inversion layers and compute duct parameters from radiosonde observations and model forecasts and then a 2dVAR is developed to "optimally interpolate" the duct parameters from observation locations to the model grid.
	www.nssl.noaa.gov /seminars/abs/xu.html (192 words)

	CBS6 Albany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The interesting aspect to the set up was a mid level capping temperature inversion that developed over the area during the afternoon as the warm front moved east into New England.
		Often the atmosphere above a capping inversion is explosively unstable and therefore supportive of very dangerous thunderstorms, if thunderstorms are able to break through the cap to form.) The evidence of a mid level cap was apparent when skies cleared completely for a couple of hours with no cumulus development during the afternoon.
		For a time during the late afternoon and early evening it appeared to many in the local meteorological community that the capping inversion could be strong enough to suppress convective development, and thus prevent the anticipated thunderstorm outbreak.
	www.wrgb.com /wx/historical_data/climate/climate.asp?Year=2002&Month=6&Type=Summary (1924 words)

	NOAA - National Weather Service -
		As such, the cap often prevents or delays thunderstorm development even in the presence of extreme instability.
		But without a cap, either process (warming/moistening at low levels or cooling aloft) results in a faster release of available instability - often before instability levels become large enough to support severe weather development.
		The intensity of the cap is measured by its convective inhibition.
	www.nws.noaa.gov /glossary/index.php?letter=c (6278 words)

	Parametrization
		The characteristic storm environment, leading to heavy precipitation over the Midwest, involves the breakdown of a capping inversion formed by an overlying pre-existing boundary layer from the Mexican plateau, which overlies the cool moist BL originating in the Gulf of Mexico.
		This complex pattern of differential advection impacts on the strength of the capping inversion, and the strength of the inversion is controlled by evaporation upstream of the precipitation area.
		Lower values of evaporation lead to a stronger capping inversion, and the low level flow from the Gulf will not break through the inversion until much further north.
	www.ecmwf.int /newsevents/training/rcourse_notes/PARAMETRIZATION/ROLE_OF_LAND_SURFACE/Role_of_land_surface5.html (603 words)

	Applications of New Concepts in Scientific Analysis to Atmospheric Studies - Storming Media
		Specifically, we analyzed the entrainment of passive scalar across a buoyancy-driven convective boundary layer (CBL) capping inversion using 963 and 1283 large-eddy simulation (LES).
		In the simulations, a uniform concentration of passive scalar was released in the stable layer above a CBL with a strong capping inversion (963 LES) and a CBL with a weak capping inversion (1283 LES).
		Among other things we found that we found the entrainment of top-down passive scalar to be more rapid with the weaker capping inversion suggesting that entrainment from above is affected by boundary layer growth, and that entrainment was concentrated in low vorticity downdraft regions which transport scalar directly through the capping inversion.
	www.stormingmedia.us /07/0765/A076583.html (222 words)

	BUFKIT Research Paper Page
		Inversions are shaded with the base height labeled.
		This display provides forecasters with an hour-by-hour presentation of key LES parameters including instability, fetch over the lakes, shear profiles, and height of the capping inversion.
		One of the conclusions from the LOWS project what the height of this capping inversion determines the intensity of the LES band (Reinking et al 1993).
	www.wbuf.noaa.gov /respap1.htm (1806 words)

	climopaper
		Since the capping inversion is normally located between 850-700 mb, steep 700-500 mb lapse rates are typically associated with the elevated mixed layer.
		In addition, capping inversions associated with the elevated mixed layer in the Plains are often associated with tornado events.
		In addition, capping inversions are often found between 850 and 700 mb during strong tornado events.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /jan/research/climo/climopaper.html (6172 words)

	Capping inversion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Capping inversion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		A capping inversion is an elevated (Click link for more info and facts about inversion layer) inversion layer that caps a convective (The layer of slower flow of a fluid past a surface) boundary layer, keeping the convective elements from rising higher into the (The envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body) atmosphere.
		Capping inversions contribute to the formation of radiation (Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground) fog and (Click link for more info and facts about severe thunderstorm) severe thunderstorms.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/capping_inversion.htm (94 words)

	National Weather Service - Warning Decision Training Branch
		Fawbush and Miller (1952, 1954) investigated mean sounding characteristics from the immediate vicinity of tornadic thunderstorms and established some forecast rules based on the types of air masses in which these storms formed.
		One of the main results from Fawbush and Miller's work was that a "typical sounding" of the environmental air in the immediate vicinity of a tornadic thunderstorm was characterized by abundant low-level moisture, dry air aloft, and a strong capping inversion separating the two different layers.
		The reason for the disparity in results was due to differences in criteria used for the selection of tornado proximity soundings in the various studies.
	www.wdtb.noaa.gov /courses/dloc/svrparams/objectives.htm (614 words)

	LES10b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Also, note the capping inversion on the 1200 UTC sounding released at Y62.
		The base of the inversion is at roughly 11,600 feet (about 700mb) where the ambient air temperature was approximately -27.0 C. The correlation between satellite-derived cloud top temperatures and snowfall rates is not always direct.
		The 1200 UTC radiosonde now finds the base of the capping inversion at roughly 8,800 feet (about 800mb) where the ambient air temperature was approximately -31.0 C
	www.cira.colostate.edu /RAMM/les/LES10b.HTM (382 words)

	Gliding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Once a thermal is encountered, the pilot banks sharply to keep the plane turning in a small circle within the thermal.
		This way gliders can ride upward until the thermal either enters the clouds base (see Visual Flight Rules) or a warmer air layer called a Capping inversion stops it from rising any further.
		Ridge running instead looks for air that is being mechanically lifted as it flows up the sides of hills or other vertical changes in the landscape (including buildings in some cases).
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/gliding.html (1035 words)

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