Question: What Is The Marine Boundary Layer?
Answer: From the Scripps Insitute of Oceanography:
Marine Layer Clouds
Marine Layer clouds that impact California are low altitude stratus clouds that form over the adjacent ocean waters. Once formed, they may be advected by the wind over land areas. Stratus type clouds are sheet like clouds with close to horizontally uniform base and top. They generally extend for large distances horizontally (10-100s of kms) ... Read even more