relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/535/
title: A Statistical method for estimating the convective mixing height
creator: Christen, A.
creator: Salcido, A.
subject: Environment
description: An important parameter often required by air quality models is the so called mixing height. In day time hours (convective situations), three over- lapped layers may be distinguished in the lowest part of the atmosphere: the superficial layer, the mixed layer and the entrainment layer. The latter is a thin atmospheric layer that reverses temperature and buffers the up- per free atmosphere. Commonly, atmospheric variables are discontinuous at the entrainment layer. In this approach this latter fact is used to develop a change point analysis for atmospheric measurements. Then, the change point considered in the statistical model is precisely the mixing height. We also discuss the a priori distributions for the parameters in our model and the techniques needed to perform the necessary calculations. Some examples are analysed using data obtained in Texcoco, Mexico.
date: 1995
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/535/1/Un-metodo-estadistico-para-la-estimacion-de-la-altura-de-la-capa-de-mezcla.pdf
identifier:   Christen, A. and Salcido, A.  (1995) A Statistical method for estimating the convective mixing height.  [Study Group Report]