Fig. 2: Vertical and seasonal variations of lake influences on ABLH.
From: Unique atmospheric boundary layer structures driven by lake effects
Panel I shows differences in key atmospheric variables between lake-adjacent/lake-distal regions and the overlake regions in different altitude levels, including thermal transport (temperature, red), moisture transport (specific humidity, blue), and atmospheric stability (potential temperature gradient, green). Arrows indicate the direction of change with altitude. Panel II is seasonal contrasts in daytime (“D”, left of dashed line) and nighttime (“N”, right) ABLH across different distance groups, overlake (OL), Lake-adjacent (LA), and Lake-distal (LD). The red dashed boxes highlight summer and autumn, which are the main focus period for the mechanistic analyses in this study; Panel III shows seasonal evolution of ABLH with 95% confidence intervals, IV is seasonal values of Moran’s I for spatial Autocorrelation, with hatched bars indicating statistical significance (p < 0.05).
