Detecting the structure of marine atmospheric boundary layer over the Northern South China Sea by shipboard GPS sondes (vol 17, pg 564, 2016)

Global Positioning System (GPS) sondes has been launched over the Northern South China Sea (NSCS) during the marine survey cruise each summer since 2006. These GPS-sounding data provide a great opportunity to monitor the vertical structure of marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) which is very important to the high-impact weather systems influencing the coastal regions. Our analysis on these GPS soundings reveals that the vertical structure of MABL over the NSCS is apparently correlated with the surface atmospheric stability. These MABL observations collected by GPS sondes are quite valuable for the forecasting of high-impact weather systems in the coastal regions of the southern China.