Temperature inversions over BRC during BM?

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:53 pm

any of you weather guru's out there know if the Playa can form a temperature inversion at night?

The reason I want to know is that in situations where there is a temperature inversion (and cool air) low frequency sound can travel up to 10x further. I am curious how likely this situation is to occur...(I am thinking not likely, since the winds would tend to blow it away...)

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:29 pm

Not sure about an inversion but the playa can form its own weather is probably best be described as a small version of a Hadley cell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell

dr.placebo · Post by **dr.placebo** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:45 pm

My guess is that you can get one, but given the normal playa wind conditions (intense) it would be rather rare because you'd get too much mixing. However, I gotta admit that it is possible, especially if you got a slow moving warm air mass at night with some cloud cover. Then the ground might radiate enough heat that would be trapped at a higher altitude. But I freely admit that I'm not an expert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_inversion