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How large-scale subsidence affects stratocumulus transitions [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2016 Some climate modeling results suggest that the Hadley circulation might weaken in a future climate, causing a subsequent reduction in the large-scale subsidence velocity in the subtropics.
J. J. van der Dussen +3 more
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Turbulence Structure in a Stratocumulus Cloud
Atmosphere, 2018 The growth of computing power combined with advances in modeling methods can yield high-fidelity simulations establishing numerical simulation as a key tool for discovery in the atmospheric sciences.
Georgios Matheou
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The Spiderweb Structure of Stratocumulus Clouds [PDF]
Atmosphere, 2020 Stratocumulus clouds have a distinctive structure composed of a combination of lumpy cellular structures and thin elongated regions, resembling canyons or slits. The elongated slits are referred to as “spiderweb” structure to emphasize their interconnected nature.
Georgios Matheou +2 more
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2019 The representation of stratocumulus clouds, and of the stratocumulus to cumulus transitions which are ubiquitous features of marine boundary layer clouds, remains a challenge for climate models.
Frédéric Hourdin +7 more
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On the Parameterization of Convective Downdrafts for Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Monthly Weather Review, 2020 The role of nonlocal transport on the development and maintenance of marine stratocumulus (Sc) clouds in coarse-resolution models is investigated, with a special emphasis on the downdraft contribution.
E. Wu +5 more
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Factors Controlling Rapid Stratocumulus Cloud Thinning
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 Abstract The relationship between the inversion stability and the liquid water path (LWP) tendency of a vertically well-mixed, adiabatic stratocumulus cloud layer is investigated in this study through the analysis of the budget equation for the LWP.
J. J. van der Dussen +2 more
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Coastal Stratocumulus cloud edge forecasts [PDF]
Solar Energy, 2018 Abstract Improved coastal stratocumulus (Sc) cloud forecasts are needed because traditional satellite cloud motion vectors (CMV) do not accurately predict how Sc clouds move or dissipate in time, which often results in an underprediction of irradiance in the morning hours. CMV forecasts assume clouds move in the direction of the average regional wind
Elynn Wu +2 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 An initially well‐mixed stratocumulus deck can remain overcast for several tens of hours under warm‐advection conditions, although moisture supply is cut off from the ocean due to surface‐atmosphere decoupling (stabilization of the surface‐atmosphere ...
Haipeng Zhang +3 more
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The impact of secondary ice production on Arctic stratocumulus
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019 . In situ measurements of Arctic clouds frequently show that ice crystal number concentrations (ICNCs) are much higher than the number of available ice-nucleating particles (INPs), suggesting that secondary ice production (SIP) may be active. Here we use
G. Sotiropoulou +6 more
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Observations of Drizzle in Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus [PDF]
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2005 Abstract In situ and radar data from the second field study of the Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus (DYCOMS-II) have been used to study drizzle in stratocumulus. Measurements indicate that drizzle is prevalent. During five of seven analyzed flights precipitation was evident at the surface, and on roughly a third of the ...
vanZanten, M. +3 more
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