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== thermal internal boundary layer ==
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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">An [[internal boundary layer]] caused by [[advection]] of air across  a [[discontinuity]] in [[surface temperature]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Important in coastal plains, this layer increases in depth to merge eventually with the [[convective boundary layer|convective  boundary layer]] some distance from the coastline. In this example of cool air advection, the thermal  internal boundary layer grows in depth as the square root of distance from the discontinuity.</div><br/> </div>
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