%X An important parameter often required by air quality models is the so called mixing height. In day time hours (convective situations), three over- lapped layers may be distinguished in the lowest part of the atmosphere: the superficial layer, the mixed layer and the entrainment layer. The latter is a thin atmospheric layer that reverses temperature and buffers the up- per free atmosphere. Commonly, atmospheric variables are discontinuous at the entrainment layer. In this approach this latter fact is used to develop a change point analysis for atmospheric measurements. Then, the change point considered in the statistical model is precisely the mixing height. We also discuss the a priori distributions for the parameters in our model and the techniques needed to perform the necessary calculations. Some examples are analysed using data obtained in Texcoco, Mexico.
%T A Statistical method for estimating the convective mixing height
%L miis535
%D 1995
%A A. Christen
%A A. Salcido