UNR and DRI Weather Comparison Jan 2010

Why temperature? DRI is about 143.3 meters above UNR.Adiabatic lapse rate 9.8 C/km, UNR is warmer by 1.4 C ???

DRI

UNR and UNR Farm

UNR Weather Station Location tractor

Schematic of a Weather Station

see http://www.cemp.dri.edu/cemp/recent/

Air Temperature at DRI and UNR in Jan 2010

UNR is warmer at mid day,

but DRI is warmer at night.

(DRI - UNR) + 1.4 C = 0 ????

MonsterInversions!!

No Wind!

Air Pollution Consequence of Stagnation and Inversion:Total Particle Mass Concentration (PM 2.5 um)

Summer Wild Fire

Mexico City

Reno

And the Black Carbon Particle Mass Concentration

Mexico City ventilates better than Reno. This woodsmoke was mostly not Black Carbon.

Close with Diffraction from Cloud DropletsUsing the Moon as a Light Source: 27 Jan 10