Stratocumulus clouds
Aerosol Cloud Precipitation Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
... responses to ship emissions (Russell et al., 2012). This area of widespread ship traffic is characterized by layers of persistent stratocumulus clouds. The Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted ...
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Effects of Airmass Type on the Interaction between Cumulus Clouds and Warm Stratocumulus Clouds in the Marine Boundary Layer
... Martin, GM, Johnson, DW, Jonas, PR, Rogers, DP, Brooks, IM and Barlow, R (1997) Effects of Airmass Type on the Interaction between Cumulus Clouds and Warm Stratocumulus Clouds in the Marine Boundary ...
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Coupling a new turbulence parametrization to RegCM adds realistic stratocumulus clouds
... model stratocumulus clouds in the regional cli- mate model, ...low clouds. These results show RegCM- UW as a nascent mesoscale stratocumulus model that is ap- propriate for ...
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Lidar and infrared radiometer studies of stratocumulus clouds
... Visible extinction-to-infrared absorption ratio (a) of clouds 1-3 and 5-7 (open circles), cloud 4 (crosses) and cloud 8 (filled ttiangles), calculated from the combined FSSP and 2D-C m[r] ...
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Macro- and Microphysical Characteristics of Precipitating and Non-Precipitating Stratocumulus Clouds over Eastern China
... 5 Spatial distributions of the average microphysical characteristics of Sc clouds, including the liquid water path 398. (left panel), liquid number concentration (middle panel) and liq[r] ...
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Automatic cloud classification of whole sky images
... thin clouds (cirrus and cirro- stratus), high patched cumuliform clouds (cirrocumulus and altocumulus), stratocumulus clouds, low cumuliform clouds, thick clouds (cumulonimbus ...
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Propagating, Cloud-eroding Boundaries in Southeast Atlantic Marine Stratocumulus.
... Gravity waves propagating through layers of marine stratocumulus clouds are a well-known phenomenon. The impact of gravity waves on low marine cloud decks has been explored by various observation and ...
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Satellite Observations of Low Marine Clouds.
... marine stratocumulus are closely tied to cloud ...marine stratocumulus clouds are hence key parameters of ...marine stratocumulus with sufficiently heavy drizzle that precipitation reaches the ...
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Lifecycle Characteristics of Marine Stratocumulus Precipitation in the Southeast Pacific.
... Marine stratocumulus clouds occur in the subtropical ocean regions off the west coast of ...continents. Clouds in these regions form at the top of the marine boundary layer, between a cool, moist ...
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Environmental Controls on Stratocumulus Cloud Fraction.
... and stratocumulus cloud fraction is the lack of an appropriate low cloud detection dataset to capture cloudiness variability on an appropriate range of spatial and temporal scales – particularly sub-diurnal ...of ...
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Numerical simulations of stratocumulus cloud response to aerosol perturbation
... of stratocumulus as a result of adding aerosol within the bound- ary ...for clouds characterized by high cloud droplet number seeding may lead to the decrease in albedo when too large radius of seeding ...
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A numerical model study of the stratocumulus topped marine boundary layer
... subtropical stratocumulus, midlatitude stratocumulus clouds have been less extensively ...for stratocumulus development often occur are: the North Sea, the midlatitude North Atlantic and ...
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The relative importance of macrophysical and cloud albedo changes for aerosol-induced radiative effects in closed-cell stratocumulus: insight from the modelling of a case study
... Stratocumulus clouds are the dominant cloud type in terms of area, covering over one-fifth of the Earth’s surface in the annual mean (Wood, ...of stratocumulus clouds are affected by both ...
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Regional and Interannual Comparisons of Marine Stratocumulus Precipitation.
... marine stratocumulus clouds are closely tied to cloud ...low-lying clouds, is associated with changes in scene cloud fraction (Stevens et ...the stratocumulus deck (Feingold et ...
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Evaluation of turbulent dissipation rate retrievals from Doppler Cloud Radar
... Abstract. Turbulent dissipation rate retrievals from cloud radar Doppler velocity measurements are evaluated using independent, in situ observations in Arctic stratocumulus clouds. In situ validation data ...
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oa Journal of Energy in Southern Africa - Investigating diffuse irradiance variation under different cloud conditions in Durban, using k-means clustering
... which clouds interact with ...of clouds and other meteors for a detailed description of the cloud observation procedures and specific cloud genera, species and varieties in each cloud level (WMO, 1975; ...
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iGen 0.1: the automated generation of a parameterisation of entrainment in marine stratocumulus
... A 2 dimensional ERM was written in C++ in order to sim- ulate entrainment in stratocumulus under nocturnal, non- precipitating conditions. A new ERM was written, rather than using an existing model, since iGen can ...
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The thermodynamic structure of summer Arctic stratocumulus and the dynamic coupling to the surface
... Low-level clouds are very frequent in the Arctic, espe- cially during the summer when they occur for 80–90 % of the time (Curry and Ebert, 1992; Wang and Key, 2005; Tjern- ström, 2005; Shupe et ...2011). ...
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Numerical simulations of a shock interacting with multiple magnetized clouds
... the clouds and the orientation and strength of the magnetic ...some clouds are stretched along their field lines, whereas others are confined by their field lines; (ii) upstream clouds may accelerate ...
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New Approaches to Quantifying Aerosol Influence on the Cloud Radiative Effect
... meteorological controls and the aerosol, and the co-variability of rapidly changing clouds and aerosol present a particularly challenging problem. As in other studies of complex systems, researchers tend to ...
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