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Which diurnal variation does the mixing height show?

  • A.It grows through the day and collapses after sunset
  • B.It remains constant throughout the day and night because it is determined by the synoptic situation alone
  • C.It is greatest at night
  • D.It grows steadily through the night as the radiative cooling deepens the layer within which mixing occurs

Answer: A

Surface heating deepens the mixed layer from a few hundred metres at dawn to one or two kilometres by mid-afternoon, and it collapses to a shallow stable layer within an hour of sunset. Pollutant concentrations follow the inverse pattern. The morning transition, when a growing mixed layer meets a plume aloft, is when fumigation occurs. A single measurement chosen to respond to the one asymmetry beats several that respond to shared behaviour.

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