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Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
A Sounding over Minneapolis, Minnesota
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•An inversion layer, where the temperature increases with height, is located between the surface and 905mb.
•A cloud layer is present between 640mb and 250mb.
•In the cloud layer, the temperature and dewpoint temperature are equal.
•The tropopause is located at 250mb.
•The jetstream is between 250mb and 180mb.