Despite being difficult to comprehensively observe, the lowest layer of the atmosphere, known as the boundary layer, is critical to weather forecasting, according to a team of meteorology and atmospheric science researchers at Penn State. Historically, researchers have used weather balloons launched twice a day from about 100 locations across the U.S. to observe the boundary layer, but the layer changes hourly, leaving large swatches of the layer unobserved.
Grant will help meteorologists at Penn State expand their data collection and analysis of the boundary layer
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