Estimating climatological planetary boundary layer heights from radiosonde observations: Comparison of methods and uncertainty analysis

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Climatology of the planetary boundary layer over the continental United States and Europe (2012, methodology): “An earlier analysis [Seidel et al., 2010] demonstrated that climatological heights based on Ri and the parcel method were substantially (several 100 m) lower than heights of elevated inversions or on maximum humidity, temperature, or potential temperature gradients, and they showed greater diurnal…”
Climatological Characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic Surface-Based Inversions* (2011, background): “Seidel et al. (2010) found that only 13% of soundings in a global (505 station) analysis of 10 years of radiosonde data showed neither SBI nor elevated inversions at or below 500 hPa.”
Planetary boundary layer heights from GPS radio occultation refractivity and humidity profiles (2012, background): “These quantities all tend to decrease with height across the PBL top; therefore, a useful definition is to consider the PBL top to be where the minimum vertical gradient (or maximum lapse rate) occurs [Ao et al., 2008; Basha and Ratnam, 2009; Seidel et al., 2010; Xie et al., 2012].”
A Planetary Boundary Layer Height Climatology Derived from ECMWF Reanalysis Data (2013, methodology): “The quality of the ERA-Interim reanalysis fields was already shown in Simmons et al. (2010) in an analysis of low-frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation.”