Atmosphere, 2018 Stratocumulus (Sc) is the most common cloud type in China. Sc clouds may or may not be accompanied by various types of precipitation that are representative of different macro- and microphysical characteristics. The finely resolved CloudSat data products
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The Epic 2001 Stratocumulus Study [PDF]
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2004 Abstract Overlaying the cool southeast Pacific Ocean is the most persistent subtropical stratocumulus cloud deck in the world. It produces a profound affect on tropical climate by shading the underlying ocean and radiatively cooling and stirring up turbulence in the atmosphere.
Christopher S. Bretherton +8 more
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Estimating drizzle drop size and precipitation rate using two-colour lidar measurements [PDF]
, 2010 A method to estimate the size and liquid water content of drizzle drops using lidar measurements at two wavelengths is described. The method exploits the differential absorption of infrared light by liquid water at 905 nm and 1.5 μm, which leads to a ...
Hogan, R. J. +3 more
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Impact of the representation of marine stratocumulus clouds on the anthropogenic aerosol effect [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2014 Stratocumulus clouds are important for climate as they reflect large amounts of solar radiation back into space. However they are difficult to simulate in global climate models because they form under a sharp inversion and are thin. A comparison of model
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Mid-level clouds are frequent above the southeast Atlantic stratocumulus clouds
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 . Shortwave-absorbing aerosols seasonally overlay extensive low-level stratocumulus clouds over the southeast Atlantic. While much attention has focused on the interactions between the low-level clouds and the overlying aerosols, few studies have focused
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The Sensitivity of Numerical Simulations of Cloud‐Topped Boundary Layers to Cross‐Grid Flow
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2018 In mesoscale and global atmospheric simulations with large horizontal domains, strong horizontal flow across the grid is often unavoidable, but its effects on cloud‐topped boundary layers have received comparatively little study.
Matthew C. Wyant +2 more
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Modeling microphysical effects of entrainment in clouds observed during EUCAARI-IMPACT field campaign [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 This paper discusses aircraft observations and large-eddy simulation (LES) modeling of 15 May 2008, North Sea boundary-layer clouds from the EUCAARI-IMPACT field campaign.
D. Jarecka +3 more
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Contrasting Scale Dependence of Entrainment‐Mixing Mechanisms in Stratocumulus Clouds
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 The apparent turbulent entrainment‐mixing mechanism between clouds and surrounding air is scale dependent; however, such scale dependence has been rarely studied, hindering development of scale‐aware entrainment‐mixing parameterizations.
Sinan Gao +6 more
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Evaluating forecasts of the evolution of the cloudy boundary layer using diurnal composites of radar and lidar observations [PDF]
, 2009 Observations of boundary-layer cloud have been made using radar and lidar at Chilbolton, Hampshire, UK. These have been compared with output from 7 different global and regional models.
Andrew I. Barrett +18 more
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On the importance of cumulus penetration on the microphysical and optical properties of stratocumulus clouds [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2005 Owing to their extensive spatial coverage, stratocumulus clouds play a crucial role in the radiation budget of the earth. Climate models need an accurate characterisation of stratocumulus in order to provide an accurate forecast.
S. Ghosh, S. Osborne, M. H. Smith
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