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The Transition from Aerosol- to Updraft-Limited Susceptibility Regime in Large-Eddy Simulations with Bulk Microphysics

Tellus: Series B, Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Large-eddy simulation (LES) is often used as a benchmark simulation in climate science and is suggested as a fundamental tool to examine, e.g., marine cloud brightening.
Matthias Schwarz, Julien Savre, Dipu Sudhakar, Johannes Quaas, Annica M. L. Ekman   +4 more
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Stratocumulus cloud deepening through entrainment

Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 1984
It is shown that under a fairly wide range of realistic conditions, stratocumulus cloud-top entrainment actually tends to deepen an existing cloud layer, or tends to produce clouds in an unsaturated mixed layer, even though the entrained air is warmer and drier than the mixedlayer air.
openaire   +2 more sources

Fast Retrieval of Cloud Optical Depth From Polarimetry and Multi‐Spectral Imagery That Accounts for Cloud Heterogeneity Using 3D Radiative Transfer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
Abstract We present a method for retrieving cloud optical depth that applies 3D radiative transfer to utilize the combination of polarimetry and multi‐spectral imagery that is newly available from satellite missions such as the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean, Ecosystem (PACE) Mission. Due to the approximate spectral invariance of scattering by clouds,
Jesse Loveridge, Christine Chiu, Alexander Marshak   +2 more
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Overlooked examples of cloud self-organization at the mesoscale [PDF]

, 2004
Stratocumulus clouds are common in the tropical and subtropical marine boundary layer, and understanding these clouds is important due to their significant impact on the earth's radiation budget.
Averill, Clare, Davies, Roger, Garay, Michael J., Westphal, James A.   +3 more
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Distinct Impacts of Increased Aerosols on Cloud Droplet Number Concentration of Stratus/Stratocumulus and Cumulus

Geophysical Research Letters, 2019
In situ aircraft measurements obtained during the RACORO field campaign are analyzed to study the aerosol effects on different cloud regimes. The results show that with increasing cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), cloud droplet number concentration (Nd ...
H. Jia, Xiaoyan Ma, F. Yu, Yangang Liu, Yan Yin   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Reflectance Distribution of Shallow Cumulus and Its Environs From High Spatial Resolution ASTER Images

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 3, 16 February 2026.
Abstract We investigate the 1D reflectance distribution of shallow cumulus as a function of cloud size, using high‐spatial‐resolution observations from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Reflectance transects through clouds are compared between Inner Mongolia and Tropical Ocean.
Mengqi Liu, Ákos Horváth, Stefan A. Buehler, Xiangao Xia, Mirjana Sakradzija   +4 more
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Cloud, Aerosol, and Boundary Layer Structure across the Northeast Pacific Stratocumulus–Cumulus Transition as Observed during CSET

Monthly Weather Review, 2019
During the Cloud System Evolution in the Trades (CSET) field study, 14 research flights of the National Science Foundation G-V sampled the stratocumulus–cumulus transition between Northern California and Hawaii and its synoptic variability.
C. Bretherton, I. McCoy, Johannes Mohrmann, R. Wood, V. Ghate, A. Gettelman, C. Bardeen, B. Albrecht, P. Zuidema   +8 more
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Cloud spatial structure during the FIRE MS IFO [PDF]

The fractal properties of clouds observed during the FIRE Marine Stratocumulus Intensive Field Observations (MS IFO) and their effects on the large scale radiative properties of the atmosphere are examined.
Cahalan, Robert F.
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Object‐Oriented Identification of Coherent Structures in Large Eddy Simulations: Importance of Downdrafts in Stratocumulus

Geophysical Research Letters, 2019
A novel methodology is proposed to characterize coherent structures in large eddy simulations. Based on two passive tracers emitted respectively at the surface and at cloud top, the object‐oriented framework allows individual characterization of coherent
F. Brient, F. Couvreux, N. Villefranque, C. Rio, Rachel Honnert   +4 more
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Stratocumulus to Cumulus Transition by Drizzle

, 2017
The stratocumulus to cumulus transition (SCT) is typically considered to be a slow, multiday process, caused primarily by dry air entrainment associated with overshooting cumulus, with minor influence of drizzle.
T. Yamaguchi, G. Feingold, J. Kazil
semanticscholar   +1 more source