Bjorn Stevens – Lower Tropospheric Mixing I (Chalk board talk)

Water plays a very important role in driving mixing in the lower atmosphere. In this lecture we briefly review basic concepts in moist thermodynamics and outline the role of water in turbulent mixing processes in the lower atmosphere, focusing on its role in three canonical marine boundary layer regimes: the cloud-free convective boundary layer, the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer, and cumulus-capped boundary layers.