A modeling study of marine boundary layer clouds [PDF]
Marine boundary layer (MBL) clouds are important components of the earth's climate system. These clouds drastically reduce the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the earth, but have little effect on the emitted infrared radiation on top of the ...
Fitzjarrald, Daniel E., Wang, Shouping
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The importance of stratocumulus clouds for projected warming patterns and circulation changes [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and PhysicsStratocumulus clouds are thought to exert a strong positive radiative feedback on climate change, but recent analyses suggest that this feedback is widely under-represented in global climate models.
P. Breul, P. Ceppi, P. Nowack, P. Nowack
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Effects of Biomass Burning on Stratocumulus Droplet Characteristics, Drizzle Rate, and Composition
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 2019 This study reports on airborne measurements of stratocumulus cloud properties under varying degrees of influence from biomass burning (BB) plumes off the California coast.
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Boundary layer roll circulations during FIRE [PDF]
The probable mechanism underlying the development of boundary layer roll circulations are studied using wind and temperature profiles measured by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Electra during the stratocumulus phase of the First ...
Haack, Tracy, Shirer, Hampton N.
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Low cloud investigations for project FIRE: Island studies of cloud properties, surface radiation, and boundary layer dynamics. A simulation of the reflectivity over a stratocumulus cloud deck by the Monte Carlo method [PDF]
The radiation field over a broken stratocumulus cloud deck is simulated by the Monte Carlo method. We conducted four experiments to investigate the main factor for the observed shortwave reflectively over the FIRE flight 2 leg 5, in which reflectivity ...
Ackerman, Thomas P., Lin, Ruei-Fong
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Cloud microphysical response to entrainment and mixing is locally inhomogeneous and globally homogeneous: Evidence from the lab. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Yeom JM +6 more
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A case study of cumulus formation beneath a stratocumulus sheet: Its structure and effect on boundary layer budgets [PDF]
On several occasions during the FIRE Marine Stratocumulus IFO off the California coast, small cumulus were observed to form during the morning beneath the main stratocumulus (Sc) deck. This occurs in the type of situation described by Turton and Nicholls
Barlow, Roy W., Nicholls, S.
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Adaptive Grid Redistribution for a 1D Model of Turbulence and Clouds
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsIn global atmospheric models, resolving stratocumulus (Sc) in the vertical is computationally expensive. However, Sc appear only under special meteorological conditions. Therefore, there is motivation to refine the vertical grid levels adaptively.
Steffen Carstensen, Vincent E. Larson
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AtmosphereStratocumulus clouds are cloud systems composed of stratiform clouds with embedded convective clouds, possessing strong catalytic potential and serving as key target cloud systems for weather modification operations.
Zhuo Liu +4 more
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CloudDenseNet: Lightweight Ground-Based Cloud Classification Method for Large-Scale Datasets Based on Reconstructed DenseNet. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2023 Li S, Wang M, Sun S, Wu J, Zhuang Z.
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